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Author:   Professor or Dr. Emily Johansen (Associate Professor, Dept. of English, Texas A&M University, USA) ,  Professor or Dr. Alissa G. Karl (Associate Professor and Graduate Director, Department of English, SUNY Brockport, USA)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic USA
ISBN:  

9781501376856

ISBN 10:   1501376853
Pages:   192
Publication Date:   02 June 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Why Empathy? Why Now? Emily Johansen (Texas A&M University, USA) and Alissa G. Karl (State University of New York, Brockport, USA) 1. Reading George Eliot in the #metoo Era Susan Bruxvoort Lipscomb (Houghton College, USA) 2. Putting Empathy to Work: Narrative and the Empathetic Entrepreneur Emily Johansen (Texas A&M University, USA) 3. ‘You’ Can’t Feel My Pain: The Limits of Empathy in Claudia Rankine’s Citizen: An American Lyric Ralph Clare (Boise State University, USA) 4. Limits to Empathy: On the Motif of Failed Empathy in Julian Barnes Peter Simonsen (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark) and Marie-Elisabeth Lei Holm (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark) 5. Unsettling Empathy: Hassan Blasim, the Iraq War, and the Spectacle of The Corpse Exhibition Terri Tomsky (University of Alberta, Canada) 6. Rachel Cusk’s Empathy Work Alissa G. Karl (State University of New York, Brockport, USA) 7. Affective Possibilities Beyond Empathy Kathryn Cai (Mellon/ACLS Public Fellow with PowerSwitch Action, USA) 8. Affective Misplacement and The Image City Tate Shaw (State University of New York, Brockport, USA) Index

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Reading Empathy offers a fascinating and timely engagement with historical and contemporary literary and cultural dynamics and politics of empathy. It addresses a rich array of themes and issues relevant to the logics, possibilities and politics of empathy and, in particular, to the practices and implications of 'rereading empathy' today. * Carolyn Pedwell, Professor of Cultural Studies and Media, University of Kent, UK, and author of Revolutionary Routines: The Habits of Social Transformation (2021) * Rereading Empathy is a smart, astute and scholarly intervention into the emergent field of critical empathy studies. The essays offer a nuanced and sophisticated critical vocabulary and engage in a range of lively and insightful textual readings. The book offers a rich resource for the study of contemporary culture. * Anne Whitehead, Professor of Modern and Contemporary Literature, Newcastle University, UK *

Rereading Empathy offers a fascinating and timely engagement with historical and contemporary literary and cultural dynamics and politics of empathy. It addresses a rich array of themes and issues relevant to the logics, possibilities and politics of empathy and, in particular, to the practices and implications of 'rereading empathy' today. * Carolyn Pedwell, Professor of Cultural Studies and Media, University of Kent, UK, and author of Revolutionary Routines: The Habits of Social Transformation (2021) * Rereading Empathy is a smart, astute and scholarly intervention into the emergent field of critical empathy studies. The essays offer a nuanced and sophisticated critical vocabulary and engage in a range of lively and insightful textual readings. The book offers a rich resource for the study of contemporary culture. * Anne Whitehead, Professor of Modern and Contemporary Literature, Newcastle University, UK *

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Emily Johansen is Associate Professor of English at Texas A&M University, USA. She is the author of Cosmopolitanism and Place: Spatial Forms in Contemporary Anglophone Literature (2014) and co-editor, with Alissa G. Karl, of Neoliberalism and the Novel (2016). Alissa G. Karl is Associate Professor of English at SUNY Brockport, USA. She is author of Modernism and the Marketplace: Literary Culture and Consumer Capitalism in Rhys, Stein, Woolf and Nella Larsen (2009), and co-editor, with Emily Johansen, of Neoliberalism and the Novel (2016).

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