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The marriage of minds; reading sympathy in the Victorian marriage plot.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

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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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