Neo-Victorianism, Empathy and Reading

In the words of J. Brooks Boustan, the empathic reader is a participant-observer, who, as they read,...
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Author: Muren Zhang
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Neo-Victorianism, Empathy and Reading by Zhang, Muren

Neo-Victorianism, Empathy and Reading

$434.13

Neo-Victorianism, Empathy and Reading

$434.13
Author: Muren Zhang
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

In the words of J. Brooks Boustan, the empathic reader is a participant-observer, who, as they read, is both subject to the disruptive and disturbing responses that characters and texts provoke, and aware of the role they are invited to play when responding to fiction. Calling upon the writings of Margaret Atwood, Julian Barnes, Graeme Macrae Burnet, Sarah Waters, Michael Cox and Jane Harris, this book examines the ethics of the text-reader relationship in neo-Victorian literature, focusing upon the role played by empathy in this engagement. Bringing together recent cultural and theoretical research on narrative temporality, empathy and affect, Muren Zhang presents neo-Victorian literature as a genre defined by its experimentation with 'empathetic narrative'.

Broken down into themes such as voyeurism, shame, nausea, space and place, Neo-Victorianism, Empathy and Reading argues that such literature pushes the reader to critically reflect upon their reading expectations and strategies, as well as their wider ethical responsibilities. As a result, Zhang breathes new life into the debates associated with the genre and demonstrates new ways of reading and valuing these contemporary texts, providing a future-orientated, reparative and politically meaningful way of reading neo-Victorian literature and culture.

Author: Muren Zhang
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 04/21/2022
Pages: 216
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.06lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.56d
ISBN: 9781350135598

About the Author
Zhang, Muren: - Muren Zhang is a Lecturer in the Department of English at East China Normal University (China). Before joining ECNU, she worked as an Associate Lecturer for four years in the Department of English Literature & Creative Writing at Lancaster University, where she also gained her PhD. Her research interests include empathy studies, affect theory, neo-Victorianism and contemporary women's writing.

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