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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This wide-ranging and informative book offers a valuable guide to the nature of aesthetic experience that is rooted in, yet extends beyond, the literature and art of the nineteenth century. A book preoccupied with distance, it manages to cover a great deal of territory."
---Alison Byerly, Review 19"That even ordinary readers oscillate between immersion in a fictional world and awareness of their place outside it is an attractive notion. . . . Plotz’s book demonstrates the rich and varied aesthetic effects which artists have discovered within this twilight zone, and how we might similarly use it in our reading approaches."
---Milan Terlunen, Oxonian Review"The book marvelously captures the feeling of being in the world. Plotz compellingly and artfully shows why reading feels so integral to living."
---Jonathan Farina, Victorian Review"In this lively and thought-provoking account, Plotz invites us to become more aware of our own positions as readers, and reveals the intellectual rewards for doing so."
---Jonathan Buckmaster, Dickens Quarterly"
Semi-Detached is a challenging and highly rewarding account, which illuminates a central but – until now – underexplored aspect of aesthetic experience."
---Karin Koehler, Modern Language Review
