Kirsty Martin

Modernism and the Rhythms of Sympathy (eBook, PDF)

Vernon Lee, Virginia Woolf, D.H. Lawrence

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. März 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780191655586
• Artikelnr.: 39164077

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