Rethinking Therapeutic Reading : Lessons from Seneca, Montaigne, Wordsworth and George Eliot - Kelda Green

Rethinking Therapeutic Reading

Lessons from Seneca, Montaigne, Wordsworth and George Eliot

By: Kelda Green, Michael Wood (Foreword by)

Hardcover | 9 June 2020

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vThrough a combination of literary criticism and experimental psychology, Rethinking Therapeutic Reading reconsiders the role that serious literary reading might play in the real world, reclaiming literature as a vital tool for dealing with human troubles.

Rethinking Therapeutic Reading uses a combination of literary criticism and experimental psychology to examine the ways in which literature can create therapeutic spaces for personal thinking. It reconsiders the role that serious literary reading might play in the real world, reclaiming literature as a vital tool for dealing with human troubles.

About the Author

Kelda Green completed her PhD at the University of Liverpool's Centre for Research into Reading, Literature and Society in 2018.
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'A highly valuable, timely and scholarly contribution to the current debate around the therapeutic power of literary reading. The book distinctively recovers a tradition of "bibliotherapy" in Western literature and culture as the basis for an empirically tested blueprint of literature-as-therapy for modern-day readers. Serious writing about serious reading.' -Josie Billington, Professor, Department of English Literature, University of Liverpool, UK

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