Without Any Check of Proud Reserve
Subtitle: Sympathy and Its Limitsin George Eliot's Novels (Studies in Nineteenth-Century British Literature, Vol. 8)
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing
Published: February 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780820436777
Subjects: Eliot, George; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Women Authors; Eliot, George, 1819-1880; Literary Criticism; 1819-1880; 19th century; Criticism and interpretation; Didactic fiction, English; Eliot, George,; England; History; History and criticism; Sympathy in literature; Women and literature
Description: ""Without Any Check of Proud Reserve" describes the literary and philosophical influences on George Eliot's conception of sympathy, and explores the functions of sympathy in Eliot's essays and the limits of sympathy in Eliot's major novels. Marked discrepancies exist between the way Eliot theorizes about sympathy as an integral part of her aesthetic vision and the way she practices the manipulation of her reader's sympathies vis-a-vis certain characters.

The specific rhetorical strategies by which we are made to feel sympathy for Maggie Tulliver but not Henleigh Grandcourt are among the subjects of Dr. Argyros' interest."--BOOK JACKET.