Kirsty Martin

Modernism and the Rhythms of Sympathy

Vernon Lee, Virginia Woolf, D.H. Lawrence

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 137mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9780199674084
• ISBN-10: 0199674086
• Artikelnr.: 36839890

Autorenporträt

Kirsty Martin studied as an undergraduate and postgraduate at the University of Oxford. She held a Junior Research Fellowship at Linacre College, University of Oxford, and a Lectureship at Christ Church, University of Oxford. She is currently Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Exeter.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: Vernon Lee's Empathy
2: Virginia Woolf and the 'Conditions of Our Love'
3: D.H. Lawrence: 'The Way Our Sympathy Flows and Recoils'
Conclusion