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Empathy and the psychology of literary modernism

Title
Empathy and the psychology of literary modernism [electronic resource] / Meghan Marie Hammond.
Author
Hammond, Meghan Marie.
Publication
Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2014]

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Description
1 online resource (203 pages)
Summary
Looks into the little-known history of empathy, revealing how this multi-faceted concept had a profound effect on literary modernism.
Uniform Title
Empathy and the psychology of literary modernism (Online)
Alternative Title
Empathy and the psychology of literary modernism (Online)
Subject
  • Empathy in literature
  • Literature, Modern > 20th century > History and criticism
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 180-195) and index.
Access (note)
  • Access restricted to authorized users.
Contents
Introduction: The problem of other minds and the Fin de Siècle world -- Into other minds: William and Henry James -- Dorothy Richardson's modernist innovation -- Communities of feeling in Katherine Mansfield's fiction -- Empathy and violence in the works of Ford Madox Ford -- Virginia Woolf and the limits of empathy -- Coda: New structures of fellow feeling.
LCCN
2014501228
OCLC
ssj0001500266
Author
Hammond, Meghan Marie.
Title
Empathy and the psychology of literary modernism [electronic resource] / Meghan Marie Hammond.
Imprint
Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2014]
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 180-195) and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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Available onsite at NYPL
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