TY - BOOK AU - Vermeule,Blakey TI - Why do we care about literary characters? AV - PN3352.P7 V47 2010 U1 - 809.3/927 22 PY - 2010/// CY - Baltimore PB - Johns Hopkins University Press KW - Fiction KW - Psychological aspects KW - Characters and characteristics in literature KW - Psychology and literature KW - Reader-response criticism KW - English fiction KW - 18th century KW - History and criticism KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/nird-ebooks/detail.action?docID=4398436 ER -