TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jaffe,Audrey
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - Scenes of Sympathy : : Identity and Representation in Victorian Fiction / 
SN  - 9781501719981
PY  - 2000///
CY  - Ithaca
PB  - Cornell University Press
KW  - Sympathy in literature
KW  - fast
KW  - Mimesis in literature
KW  - Literature and society
KW  - Group identity in literature
KW  - English fiction
KW  - Capitalism and literature
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM
KW  - European
KW  - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Mimêsis dans la litterature
KW  - Sympathie dans la litterature
KW  - Identite collective dans la litterature
KW  - Litterature et societe
KW  - Grande-Bretagne
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 19e siecle
KW  - Capitalisme et litterature
KW  - Roman anglais
KW  - Histoire et critique
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - 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; Open Access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/57548/
ER  -