| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 179 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Note |
Co-published by the University of British Columbia, Academic Women's Association. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
English fiction -- History and criticism.
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English fiction. |
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Women in literature.
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Women in literature. |
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Sex role in literature.
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Sex role in literature. |
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Gender identity in literature.
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Gender identity in literature. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Added Author |
UBC Academic Women's Association.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Roberts, Nancy, 1948- Schools of sympathy. [Vancouver] : University of British Columbia, Academic Women's Association ; Montreal ; Buffalo : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©1997 (DLC) 98212932 |
| ISBN |
9780773566873 (electronic book) |
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0773566872 (electronic book) |
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0773516859 |
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9780773516854 |
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0773516689 |
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9780773516687 |
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