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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