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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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture : ECSVC
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (256 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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