TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sorum,Eve
TI  - Modernist empathy: geography, elegy, and the uncanny 
SN  - 9781108598743
AV  - PR478.M6 
U1  - 820.9/112 23
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Cambridge, United Kingdom, New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - English literature
KW  - 20th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Modernism (Literature)
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Empathy in literature
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - "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 between self and other and, hence, the very possibility of empathy. Eve Sorum maintains that we must think through this complex literary heritage, focusing on the geographic and elegiac modes of the empathetic imagination, and revealing empathy as more fraught, threatening, and even uncanny than it first appears. Modernist Empathy thereby forges a theory of literary empathy as an act not of orientation, but of disorientation, thereby enriching our contemporary understanding of both modernist literature and the concept of literary empathy"--
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