{"product_id":"semidetached-the-aesthetics-of-virtual-experience-since-dickens-9780691159461","title":"SemiDetached  The Aesthetics of Virtual","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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.\"\u003cb\u003e---Alison Byerly, \u003ci\u003eReview 19\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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.\"\u003cb\u003e---Milan Terlunen, \u003ci\u003eOxonian Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The book marvelously captures the feeling of being in the world. Plotz compellingly and artfully shows why reading feels so integral to living.\"\u003cb\u003e---Jonathan Farina, \u003ci\u003eVictorian Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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.\"\u003cb\u003e---Jonathan Buckmaster, \u003ci\u003eDickens Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eSemi-Detached\u003c\/i\u003e is a challenging and highly rewarding account, which illuminates a central but – until now – underexplored aspect of aesthetic experience.\"\u003cb\u003e---Karin Koehler, \u003ci\u003eModern Language Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403801207127,"sku":"9780691159461","price":31.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691159461.jpg?v=1730484587","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/semidetached-the-aesthetics-of-virtual-experience-since-dickens-9780691159461","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}