Introduction Meghan Marie Hammond and Sue J. Kim Part I: Empathy and Reading
1. Novel Readers and the Empathetic Angel of Our Nature Suzanne Keen 2. Empathy Aesthetics: Experimenting Between Psychology and Poetry Susan Lanzoni
3. Feeling Your Pain: Exploring Empathy in Literature and Neuroscience Lauren Fowler and Sally Bishop Shigley Part II: Empathy, Form, and the Body
4. Empathic Noise John Melillo
5. I Object: Autism, Empathy, and the Trope of Personification Ralph James Savarese
6. "Hearing the Speechless": Empathy with Animals in Contemporary German Lyric Poetry Eleonore De Felip
7. Empathizing with the Experience of Cultural Change: Reflections on Contemporary Fiction on Work Sigrun Meinig Part III: Difficult Empathy
8. Empathy and the Unlikeable Character: On Flaubert’s Madame Bovary and Zola’s Therese Raquin Rebecca N. Mitchell
9. "The Great Sum of Universal Anguish": Statistical Empathy in Victorian Social-Problem Literature Mary-Catherine Harrison
10. Conformist Culture and the Failures of Empathy: Reading James Baldwin and Patricia Highsmith Suzanne Roszak
11. "More Electrical than Ethical": Joan Didion and Empathy Karen Steigman
12. Humanizing the Inhumane: The Value of Difficult Empathy Eric Leake Part IV: Empathy and Genre
13. Empathy and Gender Activism in Early Modern Spain: Maria de Zayas’s Amorous and Exemplary Novels Isabel Jaen
14. Irony as Cognitive Empathy: Mind-Reading Tom Jones’s Narrator Nathan Shank
15. Gertrude Stein and Empty Empathy Meghan Marie Hammond
16. Paradoxical Worsening of Empathy: Ambassadorial Science Journalism and The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Sarah L. Berry