The Cambridge Introduction to British Fiction, 1900–1950

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert L. Caserio
Keyword(s):  
British Fiction

Medicine and Empathy in Contemporary British Fiction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Whitehead
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Medical Humanities ◽  
Illness Experience ◽  
Contemporary Fiction ◽  
Theoretical Argument ◽  
Cultural Relations ◽  
Night Time ◽  
British Fiction ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Relations Of Power

This book offers a critique of the dominant understanding and deployment of empathy in the mainstream medical humanities. Drawing on feminist theory, it positions empathy not as something that one has or lacks, and needs to accrue, but as something that one does and that is embedded within structural, institutional and cultural relations of power. It aims to provide a critically informed definition of empathy, drawing on phenomenology, in order to counter the vagueness of the term as it has often been used. It questions, too, the assumption that empathy is limited to the clinical relation, looking to a broader and more encompassing definition of the ‘medical’. Combining theoretical argument with literary case studies of Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Pat Barker’s Life Class, Ian McEwan’s Saturday, Aminatta Forna’s The Memory of Love and Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go, this book contends that contemporary fiction is not a vehicle for accessing another’s illness experience, but itself engages critically with the question of empathy and its limits. The volume marks a key contribution to the rapidly evolving field of the critical medical humanities.

Recent Books: British Fiction

1973 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 367-373
Author(s):  
G. B. Tennyson
Keyword(s):  
British Fiction

Recent Books: British Fiction

1972 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 365-375
Author(s):  
G. B. Tennyson
Keyword(s):  
British Fiction

Recent Books: British Fiction

1972 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 115-123
Author(s):  
G. B. Tennyson
Keyword(s):  
British Fiction

Recent Books: British Fiction

1968 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 248-252
Author(s):  
William D. Schaefer
Keyword(s):  
British Fiction
Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document