The marriage of minds : reading sympathy in the Victorian marriage plot
"The Marriage of Minds examines the implications of the common Victorian claim that novel reading can achieve the psychic, ethical, and affective benefits also commonly associated with sympathy in married life. Through close readings of canonical texts in relation to the histories of sympathy, marriage, and reading, The Marriage of Minds begins to fill a long-standing gap between eighteenth-century philosophical notions of sympathy and twentieth-century psychoanalytic concepts of identification."--Jacket
Print Book, English, 2007
Stanford University Press, Stanford, Calif., 2007
Criticism, interpretation, etc
viii, 231 pages ; 24 cm
9780804754668, 0804754667
71241921
Introduction : reading sympathy
Labors of love : the sympathetic subjects of David Copperfield
The "failure" of Wuthering Heights
George Eliot's art of pain
Good vibrations : the sensationalization of masculinity in The woman in white
Anthony Trollope and the pleasures of alienation