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Scenes of Sympathy : Identity and Representation in Victorian Fiction
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ISBN: 1501719971 9781501719974 0801437121 9781501719899 150171998X 1501719890 9780801437120 Year: 2018 Publisher: Cornell University Press

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In Scenes of Sympathy, Audrey Jaffe argues that representations of sympathy in Victorian fiction both reveal and unsettle Victorian ideologies of identity. Situating these representations within the context of Victorian visual culture, and offering new readings of key works by Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, Ellen Wood, George Eliot, Oscar Wilde, and Arthur Conan Doyle, Jaffe shows how mid-Victorian spectacles of social difference construct the middle-class self, and how late-Victorian narratives of feeling pave the way for the sympathetic affinities of contemporary identity politics. Perceptive and elegantly written, Scenes of Sympathy is the first detailed examination of the place of sympathy in Victorian fiction and ideology. It will redirect the current critical conversation about sympathy and refocus discussions of late-Victorian fictions of identity.


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Domestic affairs : intimacy, eroticism, and violence between servants and masters in eighteenth-century Britain
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ISBN: 9780801890499 0801890497 0801895111 9780801895111 Year: 2009 Publisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press,

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In examining the interpersonal relationships between the different classes, she offers new ways in which to understand sexuality and gender in the eighteenth century.

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History of civilization --- anno 1700-1799 --- Great Britain --- English literature --- Household employees in literature --- Master and servant in literature. --- Social classes in literature. --- Group identity in literature. --- Gender identity in literature. --- Household employees --- Families --- Littérature anglaise --- Employés de maison dans la littérature --- Employeur et employé dans la littérature --- Classes sociales dans la littérature --- Identité collective dans la littérature --- Identité sexuelle dans la littérature --- Employés de maison --- Familles --- History and criticism. --- Social conditions --- Economic aspects --- History --- Histoire et critique --- Conditions sociales --- Aspect économique --- Histoire --- Littérature anglaise --- Employés de maison dans la littérature --- Employeur et employé dans la littérature --- Classes sociales dans la littérature --- Identité collective dans la littérature --- Identité sexuelle dans la littérature --- Employés de maison --- Aspect économique --- Household employees in literature. --- Family --- Family life --- Family relationships --- Family structure --- Relationships, Family --- Structure, Family --- Social institutions --- Birth order --- Domestic relations --- Home --- Households --- Kinship --- Marriage --- Matriarchy --- Parenthood --- Patriarchy --- Domestic employees --- Domestic service employees --- Domestic service workers --- Domestics --- Household staff --- Household workers --- Servants --- Service employees, Domestic --- Service workers, Domestic --- Employees --- Domestics in literature --- Social aspects

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