Victorian Fiction and the Insights of Sympathy : An Alternative to the Hermeneutics of Suspicion (Anthem Nineteenth Century Studies) - Hardcover

Lowe, Brigid

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1843312336 ISBN 13: 9781843312338

Publisher: Anthem Press, 2007

Synopsis

This book explores the importance of sympathy as a central idea behind Victorian fiction, and an animating principle of novel reading generally. Sympathy, Brigid Lowe argues, deserves a much more important role as both a subject and a guiding principle for literary criticism.

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Review:

'An ambitious, intelligent and courageous book... Lowe presents an unusually forceful answer to the question of what we might learn from reading Victorian fiction.' —Adrian Poole, Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Cambridge

'This is a wonderfully - well - sympathetic reading of some classic Victorian fictions in their extended engagement with the large matter of human sympathy, a matter often touched on by literary historians but never with Brigid Lowe’s reach nor anything like her delicately probing touch.' —Valentine Cunningham, Professor of English Language and Literature at Oxford University

From the Publisher:

An exploration of the idea of sympathy as a critical framework
in literary criticism

A bold and challenging, offering a refreshing look at some of the classics
of Victorian literature

Propelled by the author's engaging prose and thought-provoking observations

Its original contributions to the theory of fiction will be of keen
interest to both academics and students

About this edition

• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1843312336
• ISBN 13: 9781843312338
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 276