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Victorian Fiction and the Insights of Sympathy: An Alternative to the Hermeneutics of Suspicion

By Brigid Lowe

Book information

Publisher
Anthem Press
Year
2007
ISBN
1843312336, 9781843312338
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1435212 bytes)
Series
Anthem Nineteenth-Century Series
Edition
1
Pages
272\273
Time added
2017-04-23 12:22:27
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Description

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.

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