Mary‐Catherine Harrison
Biographic Data
| ID | 6535752 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mary‐Catherine Harrison |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mary‐Catherine |
| FAMILY NAME | Harrison |
| SIGNATURE | HARRISON M C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Detroit Mercy |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Annette Federico, Charles Dickens
Reading the Marriage Plot
Novels from the 18th and 19th centuries have powerfully shaped modern conceptions of marriage and family life. With the development of the British realist novel, the courtship and marriage plot took on a new cultural prominence that “naturalized” a deeply cultural institution and normalized a particular set of heterosexual gender roles. The cultural significance of these novels can be measured by their reverberations in contemporary popular cultu…
Victorian Lessons in Empathy and Difference
Journal Article Victorian Lessons in Empathy and Difference Get access Victorian Lessons in Empathy and Difference, by Rebecca N. Mitchell, Columbus, OH: The Ohio State University Press, 2011, xii +153 pp, illustrated, $42.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-814-21162-5 Mary-Catherine Harrison Mary-Catherine Harrison 1University of Detroit Mercy Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Victorian Culture, Volume 18, I…
Fiction, Feeling and Social Change
Is there inherent ethical value in feeling for, or with, the suffering of others? In Feeling for the Poor, Carolyn Betensky argues that Victorian novels about poverty were centrally invested in the affirmative answer to this question. Early social-problem fiction, in Betensky's account, valorized feeling as the essential element of a socially conscious response to suffering, thus playing a special role in the ‘construction and annexation of inter…
How Narrative Relationships Overcome Empathic Bias
Modern and historical scholarship on empathy has consistently demonstrated that people are more likely to empathize with those who are similar to themselves. This empathic bias for similarity means that the affective bonds and ethical motivations that accompany empathy are significantly diminished in relationships with outgroups, as defined by sociological difference. I argue that narrative empathy is uniquely capable of circumventing the similar…
Reading the Marriage Plot
Novels from the 18th and 19th centuries have powerfully shaped modern conceptions of marriage and family life. With the development of the British realist novel, the courtship and marriage plot took on a new cultural prominence that “naturalized” a deeply cultural institution and normalized a particular set of heterosexual gender roles. The cultural significance of these novels can be measured by their reverberations in contemporary popular cultu…
How Narrative Relationships Overcome Empathic Bias
Modern and historical scholarship on empathy has consistently demonstrated that people are more likely to empathize with those who are similar to themselves. This empathic bias for similarity means that the affective bonds and ethical motivations that accompany empathy are significantly diminished in relationships with outgroups, as defined by sociological difference. I argue that narrative empathy is uniquely capable of circumventing the similar…
Fiction, Feeling and Social Change
Is there inherent ethical value in feeling for, or with, the suffering of others? In Feeling for the Poor, Carolyn Betensky argues that Victorian novels about poverty were centrally invested in the affirmative answer to this question. Early social-problem fiction, in Betensky's account, valorized feeling as the essential element of a socially conscious response to suffering, thus playing a special role in the ‘construction and annexation of inter…
Victorian Lessons in Empathy and Difference
Journal Article Victorian Lessons in Empathy and Difference Get access Victorian Lessons in Empathy and Difference, by Rebecca N. Mitchell, Columbus, OH: The Ohio State University Press, 2011, xii +153 pp, illustrated, $42.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-814-21162-5 Mary-Catherine Harrison Mary-Catherine Harrison 1University of Detroit Mercy Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Victorian Culture, Volume 18, I…
Reading the Marriage Plot
Novels from the 18th and 19th centuries have powerfully shaped modern conceptions of marriage and family life. With the development of the British realist novel, the courtship and marriage plot took on a new cultural prominence that “naturalized” a deeply cultural institution and normalized a particular set of heterosexual gender roles. The cultural significance of these novels can be measured by their reverberations in contemporary popular cultu…
Annette Federico, Charles Dickens
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