Empathy in the Reading and Teaching of English Literature

Empathy in the Reading and Teaching of Literature explores the educational potential of empathy for literary studies across a historical, generic and geographic continuum. The book draws on interdisciplinary methodologies to offer new readings of popularly taught literary texts and discuss their relation to empathy. As a result, the book resists neoliberalism’s commodification of empathy and makes recommendations for the future of the teaching of literature at school and university. The book beg