Shadow Work
Loneliness and the Literary Life
by Emily Hodgson Anderson
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Pub Date 4 Mar 2025 | Archive Date 28 May 2025
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Description
Shadow Work puts writers such as Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, Laurence Sterne, and Shakespeare into unexpected conversations with authors of children’s literature and contemporary fiction, among them Roald Dahl, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Zadie Smith, and Lewis Carroll. Elegantly and poignantly written, this book examines what it means to revisit longtime literary companions and how literature can help us better understand what we show and hide about ourselves.
Advance Praise
"Emily Hodgson Anderson is a mother of young sons, an eighteenth-century British literature scholar, a long-distance runner, an accomplished equestrian, and a reader of raunchy British romance novels. She believes in the ability of the human mind—and its great metaphor, language—to lend “access to that illusory and intoxicating kind of ‘knowing’ not otherwise possible in real life.” Each brilliant essay contained herein celebrates the shadowy geographies of reading where we grope about and find one another, though find one another we do indeed. Machines, as powerful as they may be, can’t tease out a human soul. Shadow Work shows us how, on this “darkling plain,” to seek any other human creature’s heart and mind."
--Michelle Latiolais, author of A Proper Knowledge
Available Editions
EDITION | Other Format |
ISBN | 9780231218504 |
PRICE | US$30.00 (USD) |
PAGES | 288 |
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