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Politics of Sympathy and the Reading Experience
The Fin-de-Siècle Popular Fiction of Mary Ward and Marie Corelli
Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
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This book argues that the sympathy underpinning mid-nineteenth-century fiction’s ethics and author/reader relationships had a significant afterlife. It was crucial to Walter Besant’s fiction theory and politics as well as to other fin-de-siècle writers’ exploration of women’s philanthropy and the problems of poverty. What we now term 'empathy' was crucial to the very different fiction of Mary Ward and Marie Corelli and the social influence they wished to exert. Ward’s desire to stimulate sensitivity to the battle of political ideas about inequality is here compared to Corelli’s bond of sympathy with common readers which sought to combat a corrupt society and the derision of critics. Science and philosophy’s arguments about what empathy stimulated by reading can achieve is contrasted with new empirical evidence of readers’ reactions, including from the pages of local newspapers. This shows what Ward’s and Corelli’s fiction of debate achieved in raising awareness and influencing thinking.
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The island of Cyprus is a truly classic area of geology in Europe. Perhaps nowhere else on Earth does so small an area provide such an excellent illustration of the dynamics of Earth processes through abundant exposures of spectacular and diverse geology. The geology, natural resources and climate of Cyprus have enabled civilizations to flourish, and world-renowned archaeological sites date as far back as the Neolithic period. Much of the wealth and development of the island has been based on copper, and evidence of its exploitation dates to at least the third millennium BC. Cyprus is also a hazardous island. Modern and ancient settlements have been destroyed or abandoned as a consequence of earthquakes and landslides. This authoritative work will appeal to all those with an interest in geology who visit this exceptional Mediterranean destination.