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Autore |
Roberts Nancy <1948-> |
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Titolo |
Schools of sympathy [[electronic resource] ] : gender and identification through the novel / / Nancy Roberts |
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[Vancouver], : University of British Columbia, Academic Women's Association |
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Montreal ; ; Buffalo, : McGill-Queen's University Press, c1997 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-85477-1 |
9786612854774 |
0-7735-6687-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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Soggetti |
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English fiction - History and criticism |
Feminism and literature - Great Britain - History |
American fiction - History and criticism |
Gender identity in literature |
Feminism and literature |
Sympathy in literature |
Victims in literature |
Women in literature |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Co-published by the University of British Columbia, Academic Women's Association. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-174) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front Matter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Schools of Sympathy -- Clarissa: Novel as Trial -- The Scarlet Letter and "The Spectacle of the Scaffold” -- Changing Places: Gender and Identity in The Portrait of a Lady -- "A Thousand Pities": The Reader and Tess of the d'Urbervilles -- "Back Talk": The Work of Margaret Atwood and Angela Carter -- Postscript -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Roberts argues that Clarissa's, Hester's, Isabel's, and Tess's "heroism" or "greatness" is measured not by her actions but by the extent to which others are moved by her. Therefore, the character cannot be studied without studying the response she generates, which, in these |
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novels, is sympathy. Roberts asserts that each of the novels can be understood as a school of sympathy, through which we learn to behave and feel as gendered subjects, and that our response to the heroine is as carefully crafted as the character herself. Schools of Sympathy addresses issues of masochism, female victimization, the power of passive seduction, and the possibilities of heroism. As a counterpoint to these eighteenth- and nineteenth-century male perspectives, Roberts examines works by Margaret Atwood and Angela Carter that explicitly address these issues. |
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