Empathy is a cognitive and affective structure of feeling, a bridge across interpersonal distance. Coined in 1909 to combine English 'sympathy' and German 'Einfühlung', 'empathy' is a specifically 20th century concept of fellow feeling. This title...
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Empathy is a cognitive and affective structure of feeling, a bridge across interpersonal distance. Coined in 1909 to combine English 'sympathy' and German 'Einfühlung', 'empathy' is a specifically 20th century concept of fellow feeling. This title looks at the intertwined histories of empathy and modernist narrative in order to advance new portraits of both through an examination of the work of Henry James, Dorothy Richardson, Katherine Mansfield, Ford Madox Ford, and Virginia Woolf