Feeling for the poor
Subtitle: bourgeois compassion, social action, and the Victorian novel
By: Carolyn Betensky
Series: Victorian literature and culture series
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Charlottesville
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780813930619
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: feeling for the poor; title: Knowing who cares and caring who knows in Michael Armstrong and Oliver Twist; title: Symmetry, sympathy, and the "two-nations" trope; title: "Nought but tears and brave words": feeling and complaining in Gaskell's industrial fiction; title: Felix Holt and the radicalization of feeling; title: "It's a passion, it's my life, it's all I care for!": befriending the poor in James's The Princess Casamassima.