Scenes of sympathy : identity and representation in Victorian fiction

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

In Scenes of Sympathy, Audrey Jaffe argues that representations of sympathy in Victorian fiction both reveal and unsettle Victorian ideologies of identity. Situating these representations within the context of Victorian visual culture, and offering new readings of key works by Charles Dickens, Eliza...

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Main Author: Jaffe, Audrey
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, ©2000.
Subjects:
1800-1899
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.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Capitalism and literature
English fiction
Group identity in literature
Literature and society
Mimesis in literature
Sympathy in literature
Great Britain
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
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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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