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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 'Einfuhlung, ' 'empathy' is a specifically 20th-century concept of fellow feeling. This book shows how fin de siecle conceptions of empathy are woven into the fabric of literary modernism.

In recent years, a growing field of empathy studies has started to emerge from several academic disciplines, including neuroscience, social psychology, and philosophy. Because literature plays a central role in discussions of empathy across disciplines, reconsidering how literature relates to "feeling with" others is key to rethinking empathy conceptually. This volume challenges common understandings of empathy, asking readers to question what...