Title: Without Any Check of Proud Reserve
First published: 1999
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.
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation, Didactic fiction, English, English Didactic fiction, History, History and criticism, Social ethics in literature, Sympathy in literature, Women and literature, English literature, history and criticism, 19th century, Eliot, george, 1819-1880, Ethics in literature, Didactic fiction, history and criticism
Places: England
People: George Eliot (1819-1880)
Time periods: 19th century
LC classification: PR4692.S95 A74 1999