Scenes of Sympathy: Identity and Representation in Victorian Fiction

by Audrey Jaffe

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1501719890

ISBN13:9781501719899

Release Date:August 2018

Publisher:Cornell University Press

Length:192 Pages

Weight:0.64 lbs.

Dimensions:0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Age Range:18 years and up

Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher

Related Subjects

Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Social Science Social Sciences

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