Without any check of proud reserve : sympathy and its limits in George Eliot's novels

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Without any check of proud reserve : sympathy and its limits in George Eliot's novels

Title remainder

sympathy and its limits in George Eliot's novels

Statement of responsibility

Ellen Argyros

Creator

• Argyros, Ellen

Subject

• Didactic fiction, English -- History and criticism
• Eliot, George, 1819-1880 -- Criticism and interpretation
• History
• Social ethics in literature
• Sympathy in literature
• Women and literature -- England -- History -- 19th century
• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Genre

• History
• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Language

eng

Summary

• ""Without Any Check of Proud Reserve" describes the literary and philosophical influences on George Eliot's conception of sympathy, and explores the functions of sympathy in Eliot's essays and the limits of sympathy in Eliot's major novels. Marked discrepancies exist between the way Eliot theorizes about sympathy as an integral part of her aesthetic vision and the way she practices the manipulation of her reader's sympathies vis-a-vis certain characters
• The specific rhetorical strategies by which we are made to feel sympathy for Maggie Tulliver but not Henleigh Grandcourt are among the subjects of Dr. Argyros' interest."--Jacket

Member of

• Studies in nineteenth-century British literature, vol. 8

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

823/.8

Index

index present

LC call number

PR4692.S95

LC item number

A74 1999

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Studies in nineteenth-century British literature

Series volume

vol. 8