Victorian Lessons in Empathy and Difference /

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"Victorian Lessons in Empathy and Difference amplifies the fundamental distinction between the characters within a text or image--who are intimately unknowable to each other--and the material texts and images--which are eminently knowable to the reader or viewer. To this end, Mitchell's ex...

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Main Author: Mitchell, Rebecca N. (Rebecca Nicole), 1976-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2011]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Other (Philosophy) in literature.
Other (Philosophy) in art.
English literature.
Empathy in literature.
Art, English.
Art, American.
Empathie dans la litterature.
Art americain > 19e siecle.
Litterature anglaise > 19e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Alterite dans l'art.
Alterite dans la litterature.
Art, American > 19th century.
Art, English > 19th century.
English literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Whistler, James McNeill, > 1834-1903.
Hardy, Thomas, > 1840-1928.
Eliot, George, > 1819-1880.
Dickens, Charles, > 1812-1870.
Dickens, Charles, > 1812-1870 > Criticism and interpretation.
Eliot, George, > 1819-1880 > Criticism and interpretation.
Hardy, Thomas, > 1840-1928 > Criticism and interpretation.
Whistler, James McNeill, > 1834-1903 > Criticism and interpretation.
Critiques litteraires.
Literary criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. Alterity and the limits of realism
  • Mysteries of Dickensian literacies
  • Sawing hard stones : reading others in George Eliot's fiction
  • Thomas Hardy's narrative control
  • Learning to see : Whistler's visual aversions
  • Conclusion. Hidden lives and unvisited tombs.

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