Title: The perverse gaze of sympathy
Description: "Suggesting that sentimental novels, films, and TV melodramas are guided by an ambivalent and sadoerotic sympathy, this book shows sympathetic sentiments to be cultural formulations of male desire, and sympathy itself to be the embodiment of a controlling gaze. In a playful but historically persuasive linkage of diverse texts, Laura Hinton shows how sympathetic spectators love their victims and, in the process, maintain authoritarian codes of sexual and racial difference."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Feminism and literature, Sentimentalism in literature, Sympathy in literature, History and criticism, Women and literature, English fiction, Rape victims in literature, Sadomasochism in literature, Sadomasochism, Television criticism, Flaubert, gustave, 1821-1880, Bronte, emily, 1818-1848, James, henry, 1843-1916, Richardson, samuel, 1689-1761, English fiction, history and criticism
Places: United States
People: Emily Brontë (1818-1848), Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880), Henry James (1843-1916), Samuel Richardson (1689-1761)