Schools of sympathy
Subtitle: gender and identification through the novel
By: Nancy Roberts
Contributors: UBC Academic Women's Association
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Montreal
Language: eng
Number of pages: 179
Subjects: English fiction -- History and criticism; Women in literature; Sex role in literature; Gender identity in literature
Description: Schools of Sympathy is a feminist exploration of gender and identification in Samuel Richardson's Clarissa, Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Henry James's Portrait of a Lady, and Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles. In each of these novels the heroine is portrayed as a victim.

Nancy Roberts examines how the reader's sympathy for the heroines is constructed, the motivations and desires involved in an identification with victimization, and the gender and power roles that such an identification calls into play.
Notes: Co-published by the University of British Columbia, Academic Women's Association

Includes bibliographical references and index