Victorian Fiction and the Insights of Sympathy Lowe Brigid
Victorian Fiction and the Insights of Sympathy Lowe Brigid This book explores the importance of sympathy as a central idea behind Victorian fiction, and an animating principle of novel reading…
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Victorian Fiction and the Insights of Sympathy Lowe Brigid
This book explores the importance of sympathy as a central idea behind Victorian fiction, and an animating principle of novel reading generally. It has tried to purge criticism of the human subject, and of that distinctively human faculty, sympathy. 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.
Their explorations of such diverse issues as history, imagination, individual rights, family, and social Reading in a contrary, sympathetic mode, Lowe turns the tables on theoretical orthodoxy by submitting some of its central premises to the sympathetic suggestions of novels by Dickens, Gaskell, Eliot, Charlotte Bronte, Charlotte Yonge and Dinah Craik.
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