Scenes of sympathy
Subtitle: identity and representation in Victorian fiction
By: Audrey Jaffe.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 184
Subjects: English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.; Capitalism and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.; Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.; Group identity in literature.; Sympathy in literature.; Mimesis in literature.
Description: "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 constructed the middle-class self and how late-Victorian narratives of feeling paved the way for the sympathetic affinities of contemporary identity politics."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.