The marriage of minds : reading sympathy in the Victorian marriage plot

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Label

The marriage of minds : reading sympathy in the Victorian marriage plot

Title remainder

reading sympathy in the Victorian marriage plot

Statement of responsibility

Rachel Ablow

Creator

• Ablow, Rachel

Subject

• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
• History
• Literature and morals
• Books and reading -- Social aspects -- England -- History -- 19th century
• Marriage in literature
• Sympathy in literature
• Literature and society -- England -- History -- 19th century

Genre

• History
• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Language

eng

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."--Jacket

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

823.8/093543

Index

index present

LC call number

PR878.M36

LC item number

A65 2007

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography