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,...

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Main Author: Ablow, Rachel (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Stanford, Calif. Stanford Univ. Press 2007
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Summary:"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."--BOOK JACKET.
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Physical Description:VIII, 231 S.
ISBN:9780804754668

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