Hammond, Meghan Marie

Empathy and the psychology of literary modernism / Meghan Marie Hammond - Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press Ltd., 2014. - 203 p.; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 180-195) and index.

Introduction: The problem of other minds and the Fin de Siècle world -- Into other minds: William and Henry James -- Dorothy Richardson's modernist innovation -- Communities of feeling in Katherine Mansfield's fiction -- Empathy and violence in the works of Ford Madox Ford -- Virginia Woolf and the limits of empathy -- Coda: New structures of fellow feeling.

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Empathy in literature.
Literature, Modern--History and criticism.

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