Modernism and the rhythms of sympathy : Vernon Lee, Virginia Woolf, D.H. Lawrence / Kirsty Martin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Martin, Kirsty, 1983-

Series:

Oxford English monographs

Oxford English Monographs

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941--Criticism and interpretation.

Woolf, Virginia.

Lee, Vernon, 1856-1935--Criticism and interpretation.

Lee, Vernon.

Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert), 1885-1930--Criticism and interpretation.

Lawrence, D. H.

Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert), 1885-1930.

Lee, Vernon, 1856-1935.

Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941.

English fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

English fiction.

Modernism (Literature).

Sympathy in literature.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

ix, 215 pages ; 23 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.

Summary:

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. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Vernon Lee's Empathy 30

2 Virginia Woolf and the 'Conditions of Our Love' 81

3 D. H. Lawrence: 'The Way Our Sympathy Flows and Recoils' 132.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-210) and index.

ISBN:

9780199674084

0199674086

OCLC:

819383044