Reading Bodies in Victorian Fiction - Associationism, Empathy and Literary Authority

Explores how Victorian novelists used the science of feeling to understand reading as an embodied process that cultivates empathy.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Peter Katz is Assistant Professor of Humanities at California Northstate University. His other work has appeared in forthcoming edited collections on pedagogy and Victorian culture, and in Victorian Literature and Culture, the Journal of Victorian Culture, and Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment.

Zusammenfassung

Explores how Victorian novelists used the science of feeling to understand reading as an embodied process that cultivates empathy.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Peter Katz, Peter (Assistant Professor of Humanities Katz, Peter Katz
• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 01.02.2024
• EAN: 9781474476218
• ISBN: 978-1-4744-7621-8
• Seiten: 256
• Serie: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture
• Themen: Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur; Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft; Sachbuch > Philosophie, Religion > Philosophie: Allgemeines, Nachschlagewerke