Jaffe, Audrey. <br/><br/>
Scenes of Sympathy :   Identity and Representation in Victorian Fiction /  
Audrey Jaffe. 
 - 1 online resource (192 pages). 
 - Book collections on Project MUSE. .
<br/><br/>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. 
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<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781501719981 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Sympathy in literature.<br/>Mimesis in literature.<br/>Literature and society.<br/>Group identity in literature.<br/>English fiction.<br/>Capitalism and literature.<br/>LITERARY CRITICISM--European--English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.<br/>Mimêsis dans la litterature.<br/>Sympathie dans la litterature.<br/>Identite collective dans la litterature.<br/>Litterature et societe--Histoire--Grande-Bretagne--19e siecle.<br/>Capitalisme et litterature--Histoire--Grande-Bretagne--19e siecle.<br/>Roman anglais--Histoire et critique.--19e siecle<br/>Mimesis in literature.<br/>Sympathy in literature.<br/>Group identity in literature.<br/>Literature and society--History--Great Britain--19th century.<br/>Capitalism and literature--History--Great Britain--19th century.<br/>English fiction--History and criticism.--19th century
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Great Britain.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>History.<br/>Criticism, interpretation, etc.<br/>Electronic books.