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Schools of Sympathy: Gender and Identification Through the Novel

By Nancy Roberts

Book information

Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Year
1997
ISBN
9780773566873
DOI
10.1515/9780773566873
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
10 MB (10224386 bytes)
Pages
192\192
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-09-26 19:33:26

Description

Schools of Sympathy is a feminist exploration of gender and identification in Samuel Richardson's Clarissa, Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Henry James's Portrait of a Lady, and Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles. In each of these novels the heroine is portrayed as a victim. Nancy Roberts examines how the reader's sympathy for the heroines is constructed, the motivations and desires involved in an identification with victimization, and the gender and power roles that such an identification calls into play.

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