03567oam 22006494a 450 991027235050332120230621140503.01-5017-1989-01-5017-1997-110.7591/9781501719974(CKB)4340000000258188(MiAaPQ)EBC5317494(OCoLC)1031870409(MdBmJHUP)muse65408(DE-B1597)496485(OCoLC)1028946601(DE-B1597)9781501719974(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/89076(EXLCZ)99434000000025818819990902d2000 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierScenes of SympathyIdentity and Representation in Victorian Fiction /Audrey JaffeCornell University Press2018Ithaca :Cornell University Press,2000.©2000.1 online resource (184 pages)Includes index.0-8014-3712-1 1-5017-1998-X Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter --Contents --Acknowledgments --Introduction --Part I. Sympathy and the Spi of Capitalism --1. Sympathy and Spectacle in Dickens's "A Christmas Carol" --2. Detecting the Beggar: Arthur Conan Doyle, Henry Mayhew, and the Construction of Social Identity --Part II. Fear of Falling --3. Under Cover: Sympathy and Ressentiment in GaskelVs R uth --4. Isabel's Spectacles: Seeing Value in East Lynne --Part III. The Aesthetics of Cultural Identity --5. Consenting to the Fact: Body; Nation, and Identity in Daniel Deronda --5. Embodying Culture: Dorian's Wish --IndexIn 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.Mimesis in literatureSympathy in literatureGroup identity in literatureLiterature and societyGreat BritainHistory19th centuryCapitalism and literatureGreat BritainHistory19th centuryEnglish fiction19th centuryHistory and criticismElectronic books. Mimesis in literature.Sympathy in literature.Group identity in literature.Literature and societyHistoryCapitalism and literatureHistoryEnglish fictionHistory and criticism.823/.809Jaffe Audrey1025022MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910272350503321Scenes of Sympathy2436727UNINA