Empathy and Reading: Affect, Impact, and the Co-Creating Reader

This pioneering collection brings together Suzanne Keens extensive body of work on empathy and reading, charting the development of narrative empathy as an area of inquiry and extending cross-disciplinary conversations about empathy evoked by reading. It is organized around three thematic sections and features excerpts from the author's seminal works. It will be of interest to students and scholars in literary studies, cognitive science, emotion studies, affect studies, and applied contexts.

Format: Hardback
Length: 274 pages
Publication date: 23 June 2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

This groundbreaking collection brings together Suzanne Keens extensive body of work on empathy and reading, charting the development of narrative empathy as an area of inquiry in its own right and extending cross-disciplinary conversations about empathy evoked by reading. The volume offers a comprehensive overview of the trajectory of research following the 2007 publication of Empathy and the Novel, with empathy understood as a suite of related phenomena stimulated by representations in narratives. The book is organized into three thematic sections: theories, empathetic readers, and interdisciplinary applications, each preceded by a short framing essay. The volume features excerpts from the author's seminal works on narrative empathy and makes available her harder-to-access contributions. The book brings different strands of the author's research into conversation with existing debates, with the aim of inspiring future interdisciplinary research on narrative empathy. This book will be of interest to students and scholars in such fields as literary studies, cognitive science, emotion studies, affect studies, and applied contexts where empathetic practitioners work.

Dimension: 229 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032205366