TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mitchell,Rebecca N.
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - Victorian Lessons in Empathy and Difference / 
T2  - Victorian critical interventions
SN  - 9780814270608
PY  - 2011///]
CY  - Columbus
PB  - The Ohio State University Press
KW  - Whistler, James McNeill,
KW  - Hardy, Thomas,
KW  - Eliot, George,
KW  - Dickens, Charles,
KW  - Other (Philosophy) in literature
KW  - fast
KW  - Other (Philosophy) in art
KW  - English literature
KW  - Empathy in literature
KW  - Art, English
KW  - Art, American
KW  - Empathie dans la litterature
KW  - Art americain
KW  - 19e siecle
KW  - Litterature anglaise
KW  - Histoire et critique
KW  - Alterite dans l'art
KW  - Alterite dans la litterature
KW  - 19th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Critiques litteraires
KW  - rvmgf
KW  - Literary criticism
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - 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; Open Access
N2  - "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 exploration of alterity is grounded in the tradition of Emmanuel Levinas, whose work establishes a vocabulary for considering otherness outside of dialectical oppositions, binaries which so often define recent constructions of Victorian subjectivity. The study turns explicitly from the usual paradigms for encountering Victorian otherness--race, gender, colonized status, or class--to focus instead on the representations of difference where proximity typically precludes the recognition of alterity"--Publisher's description; "Looking closely at the work of Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, and James McNeill Whistler, Rebecca N. Mitchell reframes conventional considerations of Victorian empathy and argues that the recognition of alterity, and not identification, is the basis of the intersubjectivity depicted in realist texts and paintings. In the nineteenth century, encounters with the other are represented through the disconnection between subjects within the novel or painting's space; representation of that intersubjective inscrutability is elemental to the realist project."
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/24266/
ER  -