心の結婚：ヴィクトリア結婚小説のプロットにおける共感 The Marriage of Minds : Reading Sympathy in the Victorian Marriage Plot

Ablow, Rachel

Stanford University Press（2007/06発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 248 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780804754668
• DDC分類 823.8093543

基本説明

Through close readings of canonical texts in relation to the histories of sympathy, marriage, and reading, The Marriage of Minds begins to fill a long-standing gap between eighteenth-century philosophical notions of sympathy and twentieth-century psychoanalytic concepts of identification.

Full Description

The Marriage of Minds examines the implications of the common Victorian claim that novel reading can achieve the psychic, ethical, and affective benefits also commonly associated with sympathy in married life. Through close readings of canonical texts in relation to the histories of sympathy, marriage, and reading, The Marriage of Minds begins to fill a long-standing gap between eighteenth-century philosophical notions of sympathy and twentieth-century psychoanalytic concepts of identification. It examines the wide variety of ways in which novels were understood to educate or reform readers in the mid-nineteenth century. Finally, it demonstrates how both the form of the Victorian novel and the experience supposed to result from that form were implicated in ongoing debates about the nature, purpose, and law of marriage.

Contents

Contents Introduction: Reading Sympathy 000 1. Labors of Love: The Sympathetic Subjects of David Copperfield 000 2. The "Failure" of Wuthering Heights 000 3. George Eliot's Art of Pain 000 4. Good Vibrations: The Sensationalization of Masculinity in The Woman in White 000 5. Anthony Trollope and the Pleasures of Alienation 000 Notes 000 Works Cited 000 Index 000