Affecting fictions : mind, body, and emotion in American literary realism / Jane F. Thrailkill.
"Affecting Fictions offers a new understanding of American literary realism that draws on neuroscience and cognitive psychology. Thrailkill positions herself against the emotionless interpretations of the New Critics. Taking as her point of departure realist works of medicine, psychology, and l...
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Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press,
2007.
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Summary: | "Affecting Fictions offers a new understanding of American literary realism that draws on neuroscience and cognitive psychology. Thrailkill positions herself against the emotionless interpretations of the New Critics. Taking as her point of departure realist works of medicine, psychology, and literature, she argues that nineteenth-century readers and critics would have taken it for granted that texts engaged both mind and body. Feeling, she writes, is part of interpretation." "Focusing on pity, fear, nervousness, pleasure, and wonder, Thrailkill makes a contribution to the growing body of critical work on affect and aesthetics, presenting a case for the indispensability of emotions to the study of fiction."--Jacket. |
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Physical Description: | 312 pages ; 25 cm |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-296) and index. |
ISBN: | 9780674025127 0674025121 |