Scenes of Sympathy : Identity and Representation in Victorian Fiction.
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, Eliza...
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2018.
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Table of Contents:
- Scenes of Sympathy; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I Sympathy and the Spirit of Capitalism; 1 Sympathy and Spectacle in Dickensâ#x80;#x99;s â#x80;#x9C;A Christmas Carolâ#x80;#x9D;; 2 Detecting the Beggar: Arthur Conan Doyle, Henry Mayhew, and the Construction of Social Identity; Part II Fear of Falling; 3 Under Cover: Sym pathy and Ressentiment in Gaskell's Ruth; 4 Isabels 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; 6 Embodying Culture: Dorian's Wish; Index.