Scenes of sympathy : identity and representation in Victorian fiction

Scenes of sympathy : identity and representation in Victorian fiction / Audrey Jaffe.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jaffe, Audrey
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2000.
Subjects:
English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
Capitalism and literature > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Literature and society > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Group identity in literature.
Sympathy in literature.
Mimesis in literature.
Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Sympathy and the spirit of capitalism
  • ch. 1. Sympathy and spectacle in Dickens's "A Christmas carol"
  • ch. 2. Detecting the beggar: Arthur Conan Doyle, Henry Mayhew, and the construction of social identity
  • Part II. Fear of falling
  • ch. 3. Under cover: sympathy and ressentiment in Gaskell's Ruth
  • ch. 4. Isabel's spectacles: seeing value in East Lynne
  • Part III. The aesthtics of cultural identity
  • ch. 5. Consenting to the fact: body, nation, and identity in Daniel Deronda
  • ch. 6. Embodying culture: Dorian's wish.

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