Neo-Victorianism, empathy and reading /
"In the words of J. Brooks Boustan, the empathic reader is a participant-observer, who, as they read, is both subject to the disruptive and disturbing responses that characters and texts provoke, and aware of the role they are invited to play when responding to fiction. Calling upon the writing...
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London ; New York :
Bloomsbury Academic,
2022.
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Table of Contents:
- Suspicious reading
- Reading (with) shame
- Tragic man
- Affective embodiment
- Conclusion.
