Scenes of Sympathy : Identity and Representation in Victorian Fiction /
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...
Saved in:
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2000.
|
| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
|
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | Full text available: |
| Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
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.