{"product_id":"the-marriage-of-minds-reading-sympathy-in-the-victorian-marriage-plot-9780804754668","title":"The Marriage of Minds: Reading Sympathy in the Victorian Marriage Plot","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Marriage of Minds\u003c\/i\u003e examines the implications of the common Victorian claim that novel reading can achieve the psychic, ethical, and affective benefits also commonly associated with sympathy in married life. Through close readings of canonical texts in relation to the histories of sympathy, marriage, and reading, \u003ci\u003eThe Marriage of Minds\u003c\/i\u003e begins to fill a long-standing gap between eighteenth-century philosophical notions of sympathy and twentieth-century psychoanalytic concepts of identification. It examines the wide variety of ways in which novels were understood to educate or reform readers in the mid-nineteenth century. Finally, it demonstrates how both the form of the Victorian novel and the experience supposed to result from that form were implicated in ongoing debates about the nature, purpose, and law of marriage.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Rachel Ablow\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Stanford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/13\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.03lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.61w x 0.75d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780804754668\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2007 pg. 273\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRachel Ablow is an Assistant Professor of English at SUNY, Buffalo. Her work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eDickens Studies Annual\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eNovel: A Forum on Fiction.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":42806605840499,"sku":"9.7808E+12","price":116.51,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_439ddaab-e754-4e48-bb9a-db6b8678c326.jpg?v=1738237869","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/the-marriage-of-minds-reading-sympathy-in-the-victorian-marriage-plot-9780804754668","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}