The one vs. the many : minor characters and the space of the protagonist in the novel
09 Feb 2009-
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01 Jan 2007
TL;DR: In Between Women as mentioned in this paper, the authors look at fashion plates, doll stories, and pornography to uncover Victorian women's desire for each other, which is not necessarily lesbian or sexual, but rather intense and sensual, but for the most part unconnected to sexual acts.
Abstract: object." Marshalling wide swaths of evidence, induding novels in which marriage founders in the absence of female friendship (especially Villette), as well as books that scrupulously follow the model (such as David Copperfield), this chapter effectively transforms the conventional wisdom on the Victorian novel. For anyone obsessed with Victorian stuff, part two, "Mobile Objects: Female Desire," is perhaps the most exciting section of Between Women. Marcus looks at fashion plates, doll stories, and pornography to uncover Victorian women's desire-for each other. This desire, she insists, is not necessarily lesbian or sexual. Rather, it is erotic: intense and sensual, but for the most part unconnected to sexual acts. Here too, Marcus powerfully revises more than a century's worth of theory, arguing persuasively wo n poSss te g , a well as t i f11 l of) letr abu cororl puihmn fo gIrl that11
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TL;DR: The authors argue that sociality is too often confused with liking, and argue that it is vital to tackle misanthropy head on, and that currently there is a coming together in cities of all kinds of affective politics of concern which can act, through all manner of small achievements, as a counter-example of the Cassandra interpretation, but which do not mistake the practice of this politics for a search after perfection.
Abstract: I take as my starting point the fact that Western cities are often depicted as on the brink of catastrophe. Indeed some contemporary authors would argue that they have never been closer to that brink. The first part of this paper argues against this tendency by focusing on the preponderance of activities of repair and maintenance. Having looked at the state of this forgotten infrastructure, in the second part of the paper I turn to an examination of why this Cassandra interpretation is so prevalent. I argue that, in particular, it draws on wellsprings of misanthropy which are rarely voiced in writings on cities because sociality is too often confused with liking. Yet it seems vital to me to tackle misanthropy head on. Then, in the third part of the paper, I argue that currently there is a coming together in cities of all kinds of affective politics of concern which can act, through all manner of small achievements, as a counter to misanthropy but which do not mistake the practice of this politics for a search after perfection.
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01 Jan 2008
TL;DR: The first Strawberries in India: Cultural Portability Abroad 45 CHAPTER Three: Someone Else's Knowledge: Race and Portable Culture in Daniel Deronda 72 CHAPTER Four: Locating Lorna Doone: R. D. Blackmore, F. H. Burnett, and the Limits of English Regionalism 93 CHAPTER Five: Characters and Environments in Thomas Hardy's Wessex 122 CHAPTER Six: Nowhere and Everywhere: The End of Portability in William Morris's Romances 144 CONCLUSION: Is Portability Portable? 170 Notes 183 Bibliography 235
Abstract: List of Illustrations xi Preface: Getting Hold of Portable Property xiii INTRODUCTION: The Global, the Local, and the Portable 1 CHAPTER ONE: Discreet Jewels: Victorian Diamond Narratives and the Problem of Sentimental Value 24 CHAPTER TWO: The First Strawberries in India: Cultural Portability Abroad 45 CHAPTER THREE: Someone Else's Knowledge: Race and Portable Culture in Daniel Deronda 72 CHAPTER FOUR: Locating Lorna Doone: R. D. Blackmore, F. H. Burnett, and the Limits of English Regionalism 93 CHAPTER FIVE: Going Local: Characters and Environments in Thomas Hardy's Wessex 122 CHAPTER SIX: Nowhere and Everywhere: The End of Portability in William Morris's Romances 144 CONCLUSION: Is Portability Portable? 170 Notes 183 Bibliography 235 Index 257
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16 Nov 2012
TL;DR: The authors argue 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.
Abstract: 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.
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