Victorian Fiction and the Insights of Sympathy
Author: Brigid Lowe
ISBN: 9781843312338
Publisher: Anthem Press
Year first published: 07 Mar 2007
Pages: 272
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9781843312338
Publisher: Anthem Press
Year first published: 07 Mar 2007
Pages: 272
Format: Hardback
This book explores the importance of sympathy as a central idea behind Victorian fiction, and an animating principle of novel reading generally. Sympathy, Brigid Lowe argues, deserves a much more important role as both a subject and a guiding principle for literary criticism.
