Reading Bodies in Victorian Fiction : : Associationism, Empathy and Literary Authority / / Peter Katz.
Explores how Victorian novelists used the science of feeling to understand reading as an embodied process that cultivates empathyContextualizes the embodiment of Victorian novelists, critics, and readers through the scientific conversations around themConnects ethical philosophies and scientific dis...
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Katz, Peter, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Reading Bodies in Victorian Fiction : Associationism, Empathy and Literary Authority / Peter Katz. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022] ©2022 1 online resource (256 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture : ECSVC Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Associationism, Affect and Literary Authority -- 1 Feeling Bodies: Associationism and the Anti-Metaphorics of Materiality -- 2 Symbolic Bodies: The Storyteller, Memory and Suffering in Boz’s ‘The Hospital Patient’ -- 3 Metaphoric Bodies: The Professional Author, Sensation and Serialisation in Great Expectations -- 4 Plastic Bodies: The Scientist, Vital Mechanics and Ethical Habits of Character in Wilkie Collins’s The Moonstone -- 5 Represented Bodies: The Lawyer, Conclusions and Circumstantial Evidence in Lady Audley’s Secret -- 6 Caring Bodies: The Reformer, Sartorial Exchange and the Work of the Novel in Walter Besant’s Children of Gibeon -- Coda: In Defence of Victorian Optimism -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Explores how Victorian novelists used the science of feeling to understand reading as an embodied process that cultivates empathyContextualizes the embodiment of Victorian novelists, critics, and readers through the scientific conversations around themConnects ethical philosophies and scientific discourses about empathy – both historical and contemporaryRethinks Victorian responses to novels in both the academy and popular pressBuilds on twenty-first century conversations about affect, language and empathyReading Bodies in Victorian Fiction challenges literary studies to attend to surfaces rather than interpretation through a history of how we came to think about emotion, empathy and reading fiction as intertwined ideas. Against professional readers, writers of popular fiction argued that emotional reading and sensational novels cultivated an ethics of care. They turned to Associationism – an eighteenth- and nineteenth-century science that understood mental phenomena through physiology – to understand language as a physiological process that draws bodies together. Emotional reading cultivated empathy in popular readers, and imbued popular fiction with cultural value. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Dez 2022) Association of ideas in literature. Books and reading Great Britain History 19th century. Empathy in literature. English fiction 19th century History and criticism. Literature and morals Great Britain History 19th century. Reading Great Britain Psychological aspects History 19th century. Sentimentalism in literature. Literary Studies. LITERARY CRITICISM / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English 9783110993899 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 9783110994810 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Literary, Cultural, Area Studies 2022 English 9783110993752 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Literary, Cultural, Area Studies 2022 9783110993738 ZDB-23-DKU Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2022 9783110780390 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474476225 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781474476225 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781474476225/original |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Associationism, Affect and Literary Authority -- 1 Feeling Bodies: Associationism and the Anti-Metaphorics of Materiality -- 2 Symbolic Bodies: The Storyteller, Memory and Suffering in Boz’s ‘The Hospital Patient’ -- 3 Metaphoric Bodies: The Professional Author, Sensation and Serialisation in Great Expectations -- 4 Plastic Bodies: The Scientist, Vital Mechanics and Ethical Habits of Character in Wilkie Collins’s The Moonstone -- 5 Represented Bodies: The Lawyer, Conclusions and Circumstantial Evidence in Lady Audley’s Secret -- 6 Caring Bodies: The Reformer, Sartorial Exchange and the Work of the Novel in Walter Besant’s Children of Gibeon -- Coda: In Defence of Victorian Optimism -- Bibliography -- Index |
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