{"product_id":"reading-bodies-in-victorian-fiction-peter-katz-9781474476201","title":"Reading Bodies in Victorian Fiction: Associationism, Empathy and Literary Authority","description":"\u003cul\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eReading Bodies in Victorian Fiction \u003c\/i\u003echallenges literary studies to attend to surfaces rather than interpretation through a history of how we came to think about emotion, empathy and reading fiction as intertwined ideas. Against professional readers, writers of popular fiction argued that emotional reading and sensational novels cultivated an ethics of care. They turned to Associationism - an eighteenth- and nineteenth-century science that understood mental phenomena through physiology - to understand language as a physiological process that draws bodies together. Emotional reading cultivated empathy in popular readers, and imbued popular fiction with cultural value.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Peter Katz\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1474476201\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781474476201\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Edinburgh University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/31\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.19lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.63d","brand":"Peter Katz","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44128252100863,"sku":"9781474476201","price":120.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_768dc5bc-a65e-45ca-8534-2bb521fa05f6.jpg?v=1687457752","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/reading-bodies-in-victorian-fiction-peter-katz-9781474476201","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}