04039nam 2200817Ia 450 991078272600332120230912152225.01-282-85477-197866128547740-7735-6687-210.1515/9780773566873(CKB)1000000000713621(SSID)ssj0000283950(PQKBManifestationID)11222562(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000283950(PQKBWorkID)10264653(PQKB)10893429(CaPaEBR)400814(CaBNvSL)slc00201104 (Au-PeEL)EBL3331470(CaPaEBR)ebr10147052(CaONFJC)MIL285477(OCoLC)929121890(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/dp1d8x(schport)gibson_crkn/2009-12-01/1/400814(MiAaPQ)EBC3331470(DE-B1597)655277(DE-B1597)9780773566873(MiAaPQ)EBC3245896(EXLCZ)99100000000071362119981023d1997 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrSchools of sympathy[electronic resource] gender and identification through the novel /Nancy Roberts[Vancouver] University of British Columbia, Academic Women's Association ;Montreal ;Buffalo McGill-Queen's University Pressc1997xii, 179 p. ;24 cmCo-published by the University of British Columbia, Academic Women's Association.0-7735-1685-9 0-7735-1668-9 Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-174) and index.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 -- IndexRoberts 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 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.English fictionHistory and criticismFeminism and literatureGreat BritainHistoryAmerican fictionHistory and criticismGender identity in literatureFeminism and literatureSympathy in literatureVictims in literatureWomen in literatureEnglish fictionHistory and criticism.Feminism and literatureHistory.American fictionHistory and criticism.Gender identity in literature.Feminism and literature.Sympathy in literature.Victims in literature.Women in literature.813.009/352042Roberts Nancy1948-1540056UBC Academic Women's Association.MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910782726003321Schools of sympathy3791426UNINA