Introduction: Texts, Bodies, Readers Chapter 1: ‘The Easy Communication of Sentiments’: Frances Burney, Charlotte Smith and the Complications of Sympathy Chapter 2: ‘Reading Responsive Emotions’: Memoirs of Emma Courtney and Memoirs of Modern Philosophers Chapter 3: Elizabeth Inchbald: ‘Reading as a Critic, or Rather as an Author’ Chapter 4: Comparing ‘Likeness’ with ‘Likeness’: Belinda and the Portrait Chapter 5: ‘Absorbed Attention’: Catherine Morland, Anne Elliot and Fanny Price Conclusion
Biography
Joe Bray lectures in English Language and Literature at the University of Sheffield. He is the author of The Epistolary Novel: Representations of Consciousness (Routledge, 2003) and co-editor of Ma(r)king The Text: The Presentation of Meaning on the Literary Page (Ashgate, 2000).
