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- ISBN-13
- 9780231218498
- Book Title
- Shadow Work
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Columbia University Press
ISBN-10
0231218494
ISBN-13
9780231218498
eBay Product ID (ePID)
22071922571
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
296 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Shadow Work : Loneliness and the Literary Life
Subject
Communication Studies, Subjects & Themes / Women, American / General, Books & Reading
Publication Year
2025
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism, Language Arts & Disciplines
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
15.3 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2024-036424
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
In these remarkable essays, Anderson's bright curiosity lures readers towards philosopher's metaphors, through horse's stables, and into children's backpacks; she draws insights equally from the threads of plots and the sinews of joints. Shadow Work may begin with loneliness, but it offers up the best kind of company: visceral and cerebral, unrepentantly bookish, most importantly: honest and warm., Shadow Work makes legible the invisible labor--and love--of reading, writing, parenting. Anderson beautifully captures the companionship and solace provided by books. Her own book does the same, offering insight, connection, and deeply felt humanity., How does reading about others become a bridge we use to cross back and forth between a lost dead self and the shaky promise of a new? In Shadow Work , Anderson sits down with her favorite authors--Zadie Smith, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Lewis Carroll, Shakespeare, Percival Everett--to discuss how they provide an invisible structure that supports creative work. Through a rigorous excavation of the power of the book, Anderson brings herself--and her readers--back to life., In these remarkable essays, Anderson's bright curiosity lures readers toward philosophers' metaphors, through horses' stables, and into children's backpacks; she draws insights equally from the threads of plots and the sinews of joints. Shadow Work may begin with loneliness, but it offers up the best kind of company: visceral and cerebral, unrepentantly bookish, and, most importantly, honest and warm., Shadow Work makes legible the invisible labor--and love--of reading, writing, and parenting. Anderson beautifully captures the companionship and solace provided by books. Her own book does the same, offering insight, connection, and deeply felt humanity., 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.
Dewey Decimal
155.6463
Table Of Content
Acknowledgments Introduction: Loneliness and the Literary Life Part I. Losing 1. The Shadow Life of Books: William Shakespeare, William Hazlitt, Alexander Chee 2. Reading to a Child: Roald Dahl, Shakespeare, T. H. White 3. The Detective's Mind: Arthur Conan Doyle 4. Shaking Hands: Ludwig Wittgenstein, Percival Everett 5. Pool of Tears: Lewis Carroll 6. Obedience Training: John Milton, William Koehler Part II. Longing 7. Perfection and Platonic Love: Plato, Aristotle 8. (An Aside): Shakespeare 9. The One and Only Jane: Jane Austen 10. Of Pain, Paralysis, and Pursuit: Samuel Beckett, Mary Shelley Part III. Loving 11. Shadow Work: J. M. Barrie, Toni Morrison, Mark Twain 12. Animal Love: Miguel de Cervantes, Jilly Cooper, Laurence Sterne 13. Pioneer Girl: Laura Ingalls Wilder 14. The Efficiency Expert: William Wordsworth, Frank and Ernestine Gilbreth 15. Invisible Labor, Invisible Hands: Adam Smith, Zadie Smith 16. No Room of One's Own: Homer, Virginia Woolf Notes Bibliography Index
Synopsis
How is it that reading and writing can at once isolate us and bring us closer to others? Blending personal narrative with literary criticism, Emily Hodgson Anderson considers what a life spent with books has taught her about loneliness and human connection. She delves into the unseen labor of women, authors, and mothers, and she argues that we can reimagine intimacy through books. Herself a book lover and writer, a teacher of literature, and a single mom, Anderson reflects on the loneliness--and the strength--that can come from living, writing, and parenting alone. 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., Blending personal narrative with literary criticism, Emily Hodgson Anderson considers what a life spent with books has taught her about loneliness and human connection., How is it that reading and writing can at once isolate us and bring us closer to others? Blending personal narrative with literary criticism, Emily Hodgson Anderson considers what a life spent with books has taught her about loneliness and human connection. She delves into the unseen labor of women, authors, and mothers, and she argues that we can reimagine intimacy through books. Herself a book lover and writer, a teacher of literature, and a single mom, Anderson reflects on the loneliness-and the strength-that can come from living, writing, and parenting alone. 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.
LC Classification Number
Z1003.A626 2025
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