Psychoanalysis and the Scene of Reading is a literary critic's approach to the range of meanings and activities involved in reading, understood from a psychoanalytic perspective. In thematically linked essays, the author explores writing by novelists such as Austen, Rousseau, and Woolf, as well as fictional accounts of slavery and Holocaust memoirs. Offers a new approach to reading with ramifications that go beyond the Romantic texts which are her main (but not exclusive) focus