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The Art of Sympathy in Fiction
Language: en
Pages: 207
Authors: Howard Sklar
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013 - Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

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Focuses on the sympathetic effects of stories, and the possible ways these feelings can contribute to what has been called the "moral imagination." This book ex
Scenes of Sympathy
Language: en
Pages: 198
Authors: Audrey Jaffe
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-03-15 - Publisher: Cornell University Press

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In Scenes of Sympathy, Audrey Jaffe argues that representations of sympathy in Victorian fiction both reveal and unsettle Victorian ideologies of identity. Situ
American Sympathy
Language: en
Pages: 320
Authors: Caleb Crain
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-10-01 - Publisher: Yale University Press

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“A friend in history,” Henry David Thoreau once wrote, “looks like some premature soul.” And in the history of friendship in early America, Caleb Crain
The Art of Sympathy in Fiction
Language: en
Pages: 208
Authors: Howard Sklar
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-03-13 - Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

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By taking an interdisciplinary approach — with methods drawn from narratology, aesthetics, social psychology, education, and the empirical study of literature
Sympathetic Realism in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction
Language: en
Pages: 215
Authors: Rae Greiner
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-11-16 - Publisher: JHU Press

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Rae Greiner proposes that sympathy is integral to the form of the classic nineteenth-century realist novel. Following the philosophy of Adam Smith, Greiner argu