Scenes of sympathy: identity and representation in Victorian fiction
Year: 2000
Type: book-review
Abstract: Part 1. Sympathy and the spirit of capitalism. Sympathy and spectacle in Dickens's A Christmas carol -- Detecting the beggar : Arthur Conan Doyle, Henry Mayhew, and the construction of social identity -- part 2. Fear of falling. Under cover : sympathy and ressentiment in Gaskell's Ruth -- Isabel's spectacles : seeing value in East Lynne -- part 3. The aesthtics of cultural identity. Consenting to the fact : body, nation, and identity in Daniel Deronda -- Embodying culture : Dorian's wish.
Source: Choice Reviews Online
Author: Jaffe, Audrey
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W657903749