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Unstable Sympathies in the 19th-Century British Novel, 1814-1853./
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Deren, Jennifer.
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239 p.
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Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 76-10(E), Section: A.
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Dissertation Abstracts International76-10A(E).
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English literature. -
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Unstable Sympathies in the 19th-Century British Novel, 1814-1853.
Deren, Jennifer.
Unstable Sympathies in the 19th-Century British Novel, 1814-1853.
- 239 p.
Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 76-10(E), Section: A.
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Tufts University, 2015.
This dissertation explores the darker side of sympathy in three 19th-century British novels in order to illuminate the frustrations, anxieties, and displeasures of intimacy, both between people and between readers and texts. Examining just three of many possible ways in which interpersonal encounters can be deeply uncomfortable, I argue that Frances Burney's The Wanderer; or, Female Difficulties (1814), Mary Shelley's The Last Man (1826), and Charlotte Bronte's Villette (1853) illustrate in characters and mobilize in readers self-other relations that are "difficult," revolting, and penetrating, respectively. These modalities of sympathy, which make reading a deeply uncomfortable experience, complicate Adam Smith's influential argument that sympathy generates benevolence and peace between individuals and social groups, challenging 19th-century politics that incorporate Smithian sympathy as a strategy for regulating gendered, lower-class, and racial others. Making sympathetic reading a discomfiting and disconcerting experience, the novels demonstrate that sympathy generates unstable affects that defy attempts to control people and their thoughts and feelings.
ISBN: 9781321770322Subjects--Topical Terms:
516356
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