Title Reading bodies in Victorian fiction : associationism, empathy and literary authority / Peter J. Katz

Published Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022] ©2022

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 248 pages) Series Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture. 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 Summary Explores how Victorian novelists used the science of feeling to understand reading as an embodied process that cultivates empathy Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 222-241) and index Notes Print version record Subject English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism Sentimentalism in literature. Association of ideas in literature. Empathy in literature. Books and reading -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century Reading -- Great Britain -- Psychological aspects -- History -- 19th century Literature and morals -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century FICTION / Literary Sentimentalism in literature Reading -- Psychological aspects Literature and morals Books and reading Association of ideas in literature Empathy in literature English fiction Great Britain Genre/Form Literary criticism History Criticism, interpretation, etc. Literary criticism. Critiques littéraires. Form Electronic book ISBN 9781474476225 1474476228 9781474476232 1474476236 1399518852 9781399518857

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