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Reading sympathy in Romantic literature / Stacey McDowell.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McDowell, Stacey, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Literature, Modern--19th century--History and criticism.
- Literature, Modern.
- Sympathy in literature.
- Romanticism.
- romanticism (form of expression).
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Literary criticism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2026.
- Summary:
- "Through incisive analysis, Stacey McDowell shows how Romantic writers reflect on ideas about reading, revealing what the literary portrayal of shared reading adds to histories of the book and moral philosophy, and how the effects of form and style aim to reproduce the shared experience of reading described"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction : Reading minds
- Hunt, Byron, and Dante’s Paolo and Francesca
- Goethe’s grammar of intimacy
- Wollstonecraft and Godwin, loving by the book
- Lamb’s reading blunders
- Keats’s interreading
- Conclusion : Reading together apart.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Online resource; title from PDF title page (Cambridge Core, viewed January 16, 2026).
- Other Format:
- Print version: McDowell, Stacey Reading sympathy in Romantic literature
- ISBN:
- 9781009380430
- 1009380435
- OCLC:
- 1528574654
- Publisher Number:
- CIPO000290638
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license
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