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Why Victorian Literature Still Matters is a passionate defense of Victorian literature's enduring impact and importance for readers interested in the relationship between literature and life, reading and thinking.

• Explores the prominence of Victorian literature for contemporary readers and academics, through the author's unique insight into why it is still important today
• Provides new frames of interpretation for key Victorian works of literature and close readings of important texts
• Argues for a new engagement with Victorian literature, from general readers...

Can reading literature really help our mental health? This book shows how and why - not by instruction or prescription but by emotion and exploration.  Offering case histories of individual readers and reading groups based on the work of The Reader, a charity dedicated to bringing serious literature to neglected communities, the authors showcase how a whole new demographic might get into reading, and in doing so unlock the emotional intelligence and benefits to health and wellbeing which come from our access to written human stories and imagined situations.