Scenes of sympathy identity and representation in Victorian fiction /

Scenes of sympathy [electronic resource] : identity and representation in Victorian fiction / Audrey Jaffe.

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Main Author: Jaffe, Audrey
Format: Electronic eBook
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 1. Sympathy and the spirit of capitalism. Sympathy and spectacle in Dickens's "A Christmas carol"
  • Detecting the beggar : Arthur Conan Doyle, Henry Mayhew, and the construction of social identity
  • part 2. Fear of falling. Under cover : sympathy and ressentiment in Gaskell's Ruth
  • Isabel's spectacles : seeing value in East Lynne
  • part 3. The aesthtics of cultural identity. Consenting to the fact : body, nation, and identity in Daniel Deronda
  • Embodying culture : Dorian's wish.

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