Scenes of Sympathy : Identity and Representation in Victorian Fiction /

Scenes of Sympathy : Identity and Representation in Victorian Fiction /

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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.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Sympathy in literature.
Mimesis in literature.
Literature and society.
Group identity in literature.
English fiction.
Capitalism and literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Mimêsis dans la litterature.
Sympathie dans la litterature.
Identite collective dans la litterature.
Litterature et societe > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Capitalisme et litterature > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Roman anglais > 19e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Literature and society > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Capitalism and literature > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
Great Britain.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
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Summary: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, Elizabeth Gaskell, Ellen Wood, George Eliot, Oscar Wilde, and Arthur Conan Doyle, Jaffe shows how mid-Victorian spectacles of social difference construct the middle-class self, and how late-Victorian narratives of feeling pave the way for the sympathetic affinities of contemporary identity politics. Perceptive and elegantly written, Scenes of Sympathy is the first detailed examination of the place of sympathy in Victorian fiction and ideology. It will redirect the current critical conversation about sympathy and refocus discussions of late-Victorian fictions of identity.
Physical Description:1 online resource (192 pages).
ISBN:9781501719981
Access:Open Access

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