Modernism and the Rhythms of Sympathy
Vernon Lee, Virginia Woolf, D.H. Lawrence
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 28 March 2013
- ISBN 9780199674084
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages228 pages
- Size 225x148x19 mm
- Weight 412 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This book is about ideas of sympathy in the early twentieth-century novel. It offers a new reading of literary modernism, challenging notions of modernism as hostile to emotion and empathy. It also offers a new intervention into the growing field of literature and emotion studies.
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How do we feel for others? Must we try to understand other minds? Do we have to respect others' autonomy, or even their individuality? Or might sympathy be fundamentally more intuitive, bodily and troubling?
Taking as her focus the work of Virginia Woolf, D.H. Lawrence, and Vernon Lee (the first novelist to use the word 'empathy'), Kirsty Martin explores how modernist writers thought about questions of sympathetic response. Attending closely to literary depictions of gesture, movement and rhythm; and to literary explorations of the bodily and of transcendence; this book argues that central to modernism was an ideal of sympathy that was morally complex, but that was driven by a determination to be true to what it is to feel.
Offering new readings of major literary texts, and original research into their historical contexts, Modernism and the Rhythms of Sympathy sets modernist texts alongside recent discussions of emotion and cognition. It offers a fresh reading of literary modernism, and suggests how modernism might continue to unsettle our thinking about feeling today.
a persuasive examination of an important aspect of Woolf's writing.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Vernon Lee's Empathy
Virginia Woolf and the 'Conditions of Our Love'
D.H. Lawrence: 'The Way Our Sympathy Flows and Recoils'
Conclusion
