Modernism and the Rhythms of Sympathy - Vernon Lee, Virginia Woolf, D.h. Lawrence

Zusatztext Offers a fresh perspective in modernist studies ... Martin's argument about modernism and the rhythms of sympathy ... is convincingly and interestingly developed throughout the book. Informationen zum Autor Kirsty Martin studied as an undergraduate and postgraduate at the University of Oxford. She held a Junior Research Fellowship at Linacre College, University of Oxford, and a Lectureship at Christ Church, University of Oxford. She is currently Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Exeter. Klappentext This book is about ideas of sympathy in the early twentieth-century novel. It offers a new reading of literary modernism, challenging notions of modernism as hostile to emotion and empathy. It also offers a new intervention into the growing field of literature and emotion studies. Zusammenfassung This book is about ideas of sympathy in the early twentieth-century novel. It offers a new reading of literary modernism, challenging notions of modernism as hostile to emotion and empathy. It also offers a new intervention into the growing field of literature and emotion studies. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1: Vernon Lee's Empathy 2: Virginia Woolf and the 'Conditions of Our Love' 3: D.H. Lawrence: 'The Way Our Sympathy Flows and Recoils' Conclusion

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• Authors: Kirsty Martin, Kirsty (Lecturer in English Literature Martin, MARTIN KIRSTY
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2013
• EAN: 9780199674084
• ISBN: 978-0-19-967408-4
• No. of pages: 228
• Series: Oxford English Monographs
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; PSYCHOLOGY / Emotions, 20th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Psychology: emotions, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form