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Date: 20071101
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The marriage of minds; reading sympathy in the Victorian marriage plot.
Ablow, Rachel.
Stanford U. Press
2007
231 pages
$55.00
Hardcover
PR878
Ablow (English, State U. of New York at Buffalo) examines the relationship between sympathy and subjectivity in mid-19th century novels about marriage by Charles Dickens, Emily Bronte, George Eliot, Wilkie Collins, and Anthony Trollope. Particularly concerned with the Victorian claim that novel reading could influence readers in the same manner as sympathy in married life, she ...
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