Vermeule, Blakey,

Why do we care about literary characters? / Blakey Vermeule. - 1 online resource (292 pages) : illustrations

Includes bibliographical references (pages [255]-263) and index.

The fictional among us -- The cognitive dimension -- What hails us? -- The literary endowment: five mind reading turns. four openings ; free indirect discourse ; Machiavellian narratives ; attention ; the drama of differential access to social information -- The fantasy of exposure and narrative development in eighteenth-century Britain -- God novels -- Gossip and literary narratives -- What's the matter with Miss Bates? -- Mind blindness -- Postmodernism reflects: J.M. Coetzee and the eighteenth-century novel.

9781421403106 (e-book)


Fiction--Psychological aspects.
Characters and characteristics in literature.
Psychology and literature.
Reader-response criticism.
English fiction--History and criticism.--18th century


Electronic books.

PN3352.P7 / V47 2010

809.3/927