Empathy & Compassion

Empathy and the Psychology of Literary Modernism – Meghan Marie Hammond

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Empathy and the Psychology of Literary ModernismMeghan Marie Hammond


Published by Edinburgh University Press

  • Recovers early psychology, a discipline that has often been neglected in favor of psychoanalysis, as a framework for literary modernism
  • Provides a conceptual history of empathy that expands our understanding of the modernist world
  • Grants new insight into modernist technique by explaining how it relates to contemporaneous psychological and aesthetic theories on empathy
  • Prompts a rethinking of empathy, a capacity that is as widely misunderstood as it is celebrated

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