Modernism and the Rhythms of Sympathy

How do we feel for others? Must we try to understand other minds? Do we have to respect others'' autonomy, or even their individuality? Or might sympathy be fundamentally more intuitive, bodily and troubling?Taking as her focus the work of Virginia Woolf, D.H. Lawrence, and Vernon Lee (the first novelist to use the word ''empathy''), Kirsty Martin explores how modernist writers thought about que...