Sympathetic realism in nineteenth-century British fiction:
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1. Verfasser: Greiner, Rae (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Baltimore Johns Hopkins University Press 2012
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Beschreibung: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
"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 emotions, feelings turn into detached figures of speech that may be shared. Sympathy in this way produces realism; it is the imaginative process through which the real is substantiated. In Sympathetic Realism in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction Greiner shows how this imaginative process of sympathy is written into three novelistic techniques regularly associated with nineteenth-century fiction: metonymy, free indirect discourse, and realist characterization. She explores the work of sentimentalist philosophers David Hume, Adam Smith, and Jeremy Bentham and realist novelists Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Joseph Conrad, and Henry James."--Project Muse
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ISBN:1421406535
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9781421406534
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