Reading bodies in Victorian fiction [electronic resource] : associationism, empathy and literary authority / Peter J. Katz.
- 作者： Katz, Peter.
- 其他題名：
- Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture.
- 出版： Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press c2022.
- 叢書名： Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture
- 主題： 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.
- ISBN： 9781474476225 (ePDF) 、 9781474476232 (epub)
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- 系統號： 000304327 | 機讀編目格式
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Explores how Victorian novelists used the science of feeling to understand reading as an embodied process that cultivates empathy. Reading 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.