Vicarious Narratives: Literary History of Sympathy, 1750-1850

Vicarious Narratives: Literary History of Sympathy, 1750-1850
Jeanne M Britton
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Hardback
h216 x 135mm - 256pg
3 Oct 2019 UK
9780198846697
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What happens when fictional characters sympathize with each other? If, according to eighteenth-century philosophy, sympathy depends on resemblance, why do many novels show scenes of sympathy between characters who have nothing in common? Literature and philosophy posed such questions between 1750 and 1850, and this book answers them with a surprising story about the history of racial difference, physical torture, and the humanizing role of fiction. Fiction createsa version of sympathy in which telling another person's story can forge relationships across differences of nationality, race, or species. For characters with nothing in common, sympathy finds itsfullest expression in the telling and re-telling of stories.
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ISBN-13: 9780198846697
Published: 3 Oct 2019
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Hardback
Height: 216mm
Width: 135mm
Pages: 256

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