Schools of Sympathy : Gender and Identification Through the Novel, Hardback Book

Schools of Sympathy : Gender and Identification Through the Novel Hardback

Hardback

Out of Stock - We are unable to provide an estimated availability date for this product
  • Information

Description

Roberts argues that Clarissa's, Hester's, Isabel's, and Tess's "heroism" or "greatness" is measured not by her actions but by the extent to which others are moved by her.

Therefore, the character cannot be studied without studying the response she generates, which, in these novels, is sympathy.

Roberts asserts that each of the novels can be understood as a school of sympathy, through which we learn to behave and feel as gendered subjects, and that our response to the heroine is as carefully crafted as the character herself. Schools of Sympathy addresses issues of masochism, female victimization, the power of passive seduction, and the possibilities of heroism.

As a counterpoint to these eighteenth- and nineteenth-century male perspectives, Roberts examines works by Margaret Atwood and Angela Carter that explicitly address these issues.

Information

Other Formats

Save 23%

£91.00

£69.32

Out of Stock - We are unable to provide an estimated availability date for this product
Add to Basket
Sign in to add to wishlist

Information