Geometries of Empathy: Modernism, Attention, and the Contemporary Novel - Hardcover
by Ágota Márton
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Availability:In StockContributor:Ágota MártonSeries:Oxford English MonographsPublish date:2/20/2026Pages:208
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780198983316ISBN-10:019898331XUPC:9780198983316Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:ModernBook Topic:20th CenturySize:8.10 x 5.30 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.851Product ID:SCH9QWR0D8
Geometries of Empathy: Modernism, Attention, and the Contemporary Novel
What does it mean to empathize today? Virginia Woolf was convinced that 'the form of the novel, so clumsy, verbose, and undramatic, so rich, elastic, and alive, has been evolved', first and foremost, to 'express character.' But to what extent can the novel capture the 'unlimited capacity and infinite variety' of other minds and lives? By revealing the origins of the term 'empathy' in modernist...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780198983316ISBN-10:019898331XUPC:9780198983316Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:ModernBook Topic:20th CenturySize:8.10 x 5.30 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.851Product ID:SCH9QWR0D8
Ágota Márton, Lecturer in English, Brasenose College, University of Oxford Ágota Márton is a lecturer in English at Brasenose College, University of Oxford where she teaches literary theory and Anglophone literature from 1830 to the present. Her research interests include visual culture, novel theory, comparative literature, and literature and science.
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