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Sympathetic realism in nineteenth-century British fiction /

"Rae Greiner proposes that sympathy is integral to the form of the classic nineteenth-century realist novel. Following the philosophy of Adam Smith, Greiner argues that sympathy does more than foster emotional identification with others; it is a way of thinking along with them. By abstracting e...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Greiner, Rae
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Thinking of me thinking of you : sympathetic realism
  • Going along with others : Adam Smith and the realists: Smith's sympathetic protocols ; Sympathetic form
  • The art of knowing your own nothingness : Bentham, Austen, and the realist case: Sympathy and the case for realism ; Persuasion and the sympathetic case
  • Dickensian sympathy : translation in the proper pitch: Harmonizing in other words ; Form's proper pitch.
  • Not getting to know you : sympathetic detachment: Sympathetic detachment ; Groupthink in Conrad and James
  • Coda: Sympathy versus empathy : the end of sympathy at century's end.