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The sixth conference of the International Society for the Empirical
Study of Literature, or IGEL, was held in August 1998 in Utrecht,
Holland. The conference brought together a wide range of scholars
concerned with understanding the place and role of literature in
its social, historical, psychological, linguistic, and other
dimensions, and who seek to advance our knowledge through empirical
methods or more effective theoretical perspectives that may lead to
empirical research. This special issue is based on papers from this
conference, and represents just a small part of its rich variety.
The sixth conference of the International Society for the Empirical
Study of Literature, or IGEL, was held in August 1998 in Utrecht,
Holland. The conference brought together a wide range of scholars
concerned with understanding the place and role of literature in
its social, historical, psychological, linguistic, and other
dimensions, and who seek to advance our knowledge through empirical
methods or more effective theoretical perspectives that may lead to
empirical research. This special issue is based on papers from this
conference, and represents just a small part of its rich variety.
This is the first major book in English on literary reading to be
based on empirical methods. Moving the focus away from
interpretation to the experience of literary texts, these studies
demonstrate the role played by feeling in readers' responses,
showing how feeling performs important functions during reading
that cannot be accounted for by cognitive understanding. These
studies not only reinvigorate the concept of literariness, they are
also thoroughly inter-disciplinary, offering a coherent approach to
literary reading that draws on literary theory, psychology,
neuropsychology, and evolutionary psychology. Several chapters help
to introduce the empirical approach for students.
Jane Austen and Mary Shelley and Their Sisters is an unprecedented
work that provides an in-depth analysis of the work of women
novelists from the Romantic age, a period that has long been
exclusively designated as the province of canonized male poets.
Although there are many volumes on the works of Austen and Shelley,
this collection is the first to consider these writers and others
in the wider context of English fiction by women during the 1780s
to 1830s. Collectively, the authors examine the works of nearly
fifteen women novelists of the Romantic period whose works
encompass the prevailing social and political realities of the
time. They demonstrate that women writers were not following a
specific formula to produce their creative works but were instead
responding to an insatiable market for their imaginative and
infinitely varied wares. A must-read for scholars of women's
studies as well as 19th century British literature, Jane Austen and
Mary Shelley and Their Sisters is sure to be an important resource
for years to come.
Jane Austen and Mary Shelley and Their Sisters is an unprecedented
work that provides an in-depth analysis of the work of women
novelists from the Romantic age, a period that has long been
exclusively designated as the province of canonized male poets.
Although there are many volumes on the works of Austen and Shelley,
this collection is the first to consider these writers and others
in the wider context of English fiction by women during the 1780s
to 1830s. Collectively, the authors examine the works of nearly
fifteen women novelists of the Romantic period whose works
encompass the prevailing social and political realities of the
time. They demonstrate that women writers were not following a
specific formula to produce their creative works but were instead
responding to an insatiable market for their imaginative and
infinitely varied wares. A must-read for scholars of women's
studies as well as 19th century British literature, Jane Austen and
Mary Shelley and Their Sisters is sure to be an important resource
for years to come.
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