Title: Schools of sympathy
First published: 1997
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.
Subjects: History and criticism, Feminism and literature, English fiction, Gender identity in literature, Women in literature, Victims in literature, Sympathy in literature, Sex role in literature, Women and literature, American fiction, Fiction, stories, plots, etc., Fiction, history and criticism, Roman anglais, Histoire et critique, Femmes dans la littérature, Rôle selon le sexe dans la littérature, Identité sexuelle dans la littérature, Pali literature, Prakrit literature, Apabhraṃśa literature, Translations into Hindi
Places: English-speaking countries
LC classification: PR830.F45 R63 1997