In a kind of social tour of sympathy, Candace Clark reveals that the emotional experience we call sympathy has a history, logic, and life of its own. Although sympathy may seem to be a natural, reflexive reaction, people are not born knowing when, for whom, and in what circumsta…
"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." …
This ground-breaking study of sympathetic readings in Victorian fiction breathes new life into contemporary literary criticism.
"Explores the politics of officially expressed emotion on the international stage, looking at ways in which state actors strategically employ emotional behavior to shape the perceptions of others." -- Dust jacket.
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by Tollmien, Cordula, Keijser, Lucy
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Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759) defines sympathy as a series of shifts in perspective by which one sees from a different point of view. British and French novels published over the following century redefine sympathy through narrative form-shifting perspectives or…