Modernist empathy : geography, elegy, and the uncanny / Eve C. Sorum, University of Massachusetts Bo...
Modernist empathy : geography, elegy, and the uncanny / Eve C. Sorum, University of Massachusetts Bo...
Modernist empathy : geography, elegy, and the uncanny / Eve C. Sorum, University of Massachusetts Boston.
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
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G 2019/4396
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English
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xi, 224 pages : 1 illustration (black and white) ; 24 cm
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text
still image
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
Illustration; Acknowledgments; 1. Modernizing empathy, locating loss; 2. Disorientation, elegy, and the uncanny: modernist empathy through Hardy; 3. Disorienting empathy: World War I and the traumas of perspective-taking; 4. Elegizing empathy: Eliot and the subject-object divide; 5. Uncanny empathy:...
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
2019.
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"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 be...
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Modernist empathy : geography, elegy, and the uncanny / Eve C. Sorum, University of Massachusetts Boston.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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ebook version : 9781108598743
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G 2019/4396
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74VKVlqGygwX
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9781108498722 hardcover
1108498728 hardcover
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820.9112
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991024259719702626
