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Scenes of Sympathy

Identity and Representation in Victorian Fiction
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In this work, Audrey Jaffe argues that representation 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. The work is a detailed examination of the place of sympathy in Victorian fiction and ideology. It aims to redirect the critical conversation about sympathy and refocus discussions of late-Victorian fictions of identity.

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Audrey Jaffe is Professor of English at the University of Toronto. She is the author of The Affective Life of the Average Man: The Victorian Novel and the Stock-Market Graph and Vanishing Points: Dickens, Narrative, and the Subject of Omniscience.
Release date Australia
March 16th, 2000
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  • Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
  • Professional & Vocational
  • Undergraduate
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1 Halftones, unspecified
Pages
192
Dimensions
152x229x21
ISBN-13
9780801437120
Product ID
12545624

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