Research Catalog

Title

Modernist empathy : geography, elegy, and the uncanny / Eve C. Sorum, University of Massachusetts Boston.

Author

Sorum, Eve, 1976-

Publication

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2019.

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Details

Description

xi, 224 pages : illustration; 24 cm

Summary

"This book shows how reading modernist literature gives us a fresh and necessary insight into both the tensions within the empathetic imagination and the idea of empathy itself. Writers such as Thomas Hardy, Ford Madox Ford, Mary Borden, T. S. Eliot, and Virginia Woolf encourage us to enter other perspectives even as they question the boundaries between self and other and, hence, the very possibility of empathy. Eve Sorum maintains that we must think through this complex literary heritage, focusing on the geographic and elegiac modes of the empathetic imagination, and revealing empathy as more fraught, threatening, and even uncanny than it first appears. Modernist Empathy thereby forges a theory of literary empathy as an act not of orientation, but of disorientation, thereby enriching our contemporary understanding of both modernist literature and the concept of literary empathy"--

Subject

• 1900-1999
• English literature > 20th century > History and criticism
• Modernism (Literature) > Great Britain
• Empathy in literature
• LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
• English literature
• Modernism (Literature)
• Great Britain

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-218) and index.

Contents

Modernizing empathy, locating loss -- Disorientation, elegy, and the uncanny: modernist empathy through Hardy -- Disorienting empathy: World War I and the traumas of perspective-taking -- Elegizing empathy: Eliot and the subject-object divide -- Uncanny empathy: Woolf's half-life of objects -- Conclusion: performing empathy?.

Call Number

JFE 21-5963

ISBN

• 9781108498722
• 1108498728

LCCN

• 2019003140
• 40029338904

OCLC

1083457413

Author

Sorum, Eve, 1976- author.

Title

Modernist empathy : geography, elegy, and the uncanny / Eve C. Sorum, University of Massachusetts Boston.

Publisher

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2019.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-218) and index.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Other Form:

ebook version : 9781108598743

Other Standard Identifier

40029338904

Research Call Number

JFE 21-5963