Schools of sympathy gender and identification through the novel

Roberts, Nancy 1948- (Author). UBC Academic Women's Association. (Added Author).

Summary: "Schools of Sympathy is a feminist exploration of gender and identification in Samuel Richardson's Clarissa, Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Henry James's Portrait of a Lady, and Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles. In each of these novels the heroine is portrayed as a victim. Nancy Roberts examines how the reader's sympathy for the heroines is constructed, the motivations and desires involved in an identification with victimization, and the gender and power roles that such an identification calls into play."--Jacket.

Record details

ISBN: 9780773566873 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0773566872 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0773516859
ISBN: 9780773516854
ISBN: 0773516689
ISBN: 9780773516687
Physical Description: electronic resource
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1 online resource (xii, 179 p.)
Publisher: Montreal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1997.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Issued as part of the desLibris books collection. CatMonthString:august.17 Terms of use - Multi-User. Co-published by the University of British Columbia, Academic Women's Association. CatMonthString:jun.14 Multi-user.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Schools of sympathy -- Clarissa: novel as trial -- The Scarlet Letter and "The spectacle of the scaffold" -- Changing places: gender and identity in The Portrait of a Lady -- "A thousand pities": the reader and Tess of the d'Urbervilles" -- "Back talk": the work of Margaret Atwood and Angela Carter.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.