Victorian Fiction and the Insights of Sympathy An Alternative to the Hermeneutics of Suspicion
This book explores the importance of sympathy as a central idea behind Victorian fiction, and an animating principle of novel reading generally. Sympathy, Brigid Lowe argues, deserves a much more important role as both a subject and a guiding principle for literary criticism. Over the past thirty years, much literary theory has approached literature in general, and Victorian fiction in particular, in a spirit of suspicion. It has tried to purge criticism of the human subject, and of that distinctively human faculty, sympathy. Reading in a contrary, sympathetic mode, Lowe turns the tables on theoretical orthodoxy by submitting some of its cent…
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- ISBN: 978-1-84331-233-8
- EAN: 9781843312338
- Produktnummer: 2540098
- Verlag: Anthem Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
- Seitenangabe: 276 S.
- Masse: H24.0 cm x B16.1 cm x D1.9 cm 583 g
- Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
- Gewicht: 583
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