Scenes of Sympathy

Identity and Representation in Victorian Fiction

Bibliographic Data

ID19901151
AuthorsAudrey Jaffe (0000-0002-3585-9662, corresponding author)
Year2018
Publication date2018-12-31
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueScenes of Sympathy (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCornell University Press (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.7591/9781501719974
OpenAlexW4238465543
Open LibraryOL36227942M
ISBN9781501719974
LanguageEN
Citations received19

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

Physics · Pleasure · Sympathy · Decadence, Literature, and Society · Literature: history, themes, analysis · Neuroscience · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology · Thomas Hardy Literature Studies · 19th century · Capitalism and literature · English fiction · English fiction, history and criticism · Fiction · Fiction, general · General · Great britain · Group identity in literature · History · History and criticism · Literature and society · Mimesis in literature · Sympathy in literature

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