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The Resource Feeling for the poor : bourgeois compassion, social action, and the Victorian novel, Carolyn Betensky
Feeling for the poor : bourgeois compassion, social action, and the Victorian novel, Carolyn Betensky
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- Summary
- "What if the political work of Victorian social-problem novels was precisely to make the reader feel as if reading them {u2014} in and of itself {u2014} mattered? Surveying novels by Charles Dickens, Frances Trollope, Benjamin Disraeli, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot, and Henry James, Carolyn Betensky tracks the promotion of bourgeois feeling as a response to the suffering of the poor and working classes. Victorian social-problem novels, she argues, volunteered the experience of their own reading as a viable response to conflicts that seemed daunting or irreconcilable. Encoded at multiple levels within the novels themselves, reading became something to do about the pain of others. Beyond representations of conscious or unconscious wishes to control, conquer, or discipline the industrial poor, social-problem novels offered their middle-class readers the opportunity to experience themselves in the position of both benefactor and beneficiary. Betensky argues that these narratives were not only about middle-class fear of or sympathy for the working classes. They gave voice, just as importantly, to a middle-class desire for and even envy of the experience of the dominated classes. In their representations of poor and working-class characters, social-problem novels offered middle-class subjects an expanded range of emotional experience that included a claim to sympathy on their own behalf"--From the Jacket
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- ix, 225 pages
- Contents
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- Introduction: feeling for the poor
- Knowing who cares and caring who knows in Michael Armstrong and Oliver Twist
- Symmetry, sympathy, and the "two-nations" trope
- "Nought but tears and brave words": feeling and complaining in Gaskell's industrial fiction
- Felix Holt and the radicalization of feeling
- "It's a passion--it's my life--it's all I care for!": befriending the poor in The Princess Casamassima
- Isbn
- 9780813930619
- Label
- Feeling for the poor : bourgeois compassion, social action, and the Victorian novel
- Title
- Feeling for the poor
- Title remainder
- bourgeois compassion, social action, and the Victorian novel
- Statement of responsibility
- Carolyn Betensky
- Subject
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- Armut
- Compassion in literature
- Compassion in literature
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Englisch
- Englisch
- English fiction
- English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- Mitgefühl
- Mitleid
- Motiv
- Poor in literature
- Poor in literature
- Roman
- Social action in literature
- Social action in literature
- Social classes in literature
- Social classes in literature
- Soziale Klasse
- Soziale Klasse
- Sozialer Roman
- 1800 - 1899
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "What if the political work of Victorian social-problem novels was precisely to make the reader feel as if reading them {u2014} in and of itself {u2014} mattered? Surveying novels by Charles Dickens, Frances Trollope, Benjamin Disraeli, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot, and Henry James, Carolyn Betensky tracks the promotion of bourgeois feeling as a response to the suffering of the poor and working classes. Victorian social-problem novels, she argues, volunteered the experience of their own reading as a viable response to conflicts that seemed daunting or irreconcilable. Encoded at multiple levels within the novels themselves, reading became something to do about the pain of others. Beyond representations of conscious or unconscious wishes to control, conquer, or discipline the industrial poor, social-problem novels offered their middle-class readers the opportunity to experience themselves in the position of both benefactor and beneficiary. Betensky argues that these narratives were not only about middle-class fear of or sympathy for the working classes. They gave voice, just as importantly, to a middle-class desire for and even envy of the experience of the dominated classes. In their representations of poor and working-class characters, social-problem novels offered middle-class subjects an expanded range of emotional experience that included a claim to sympathy on their own behalf"--From the Jacket
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1962-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Betensky, Carolyn
- Government publication
- government publication of a state province territory dependency etc
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- PR878.P66
- LC item number
- B47 2010
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- Series statement
- Victorian literature and culture series.
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- English fiction
- Poor in literature
- Social classes in literature
- Compassion in literature
- Social action in literature
- Englisch
- Roman
- Armut
- Soziale Klasse
- Mitleid
- Sozialer Roman
- Englisch
- Motiv
- Soziale Klasse
- Mitgefühl
- Compassion in literature
- English fiction
- Poor in literature
- Social action in literature
- Social classes in literature
- Label
- Feeling for the poor : bourgeois compassion, social action, and the Victorian novel, Carolyn Betensky
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction: feeling for the poor -- Knowing who cares and caring who knows in Michael Armstrong and Oliver Twist -- Symmetry, sympathy, and the "two-nations" trope -- "Nought but tears and brave words": feeling and complaining in Gaskell's industrial fiction -- Felix Holt and the radicalization of feeling -- "It's a passion--it's my life--it's all I care for!": befriending the poor in The Princess Casamassima
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- ix, 225 pages
- Isbn
- 9780813930619
- Isbn Type
- (cloth : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2010013714
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
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- (OCoLC)606053844
- (OCoLC)ocn606053844
- Label
- Feeling for the poor : bourgeois compassion, social action, and the Victorian novel, Carolyn Betensky
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction: feeling for the poor -- Knowing who cares and caring who knows in Michael Armstrong and Oliver Twist -- Symmetry, sympathy, and the "two-nations" trope -- "Nought but tears and brave words": feeling and complaining in Gaskell's industrial fiction -- Felix Holt and the radicalization of feeling -- "It's a passion--it's my life--it's all I care for!": befriending the poor in The Princess Casamassima
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- ix, 225 pages
- Isbn
- 9780813930619
- Isbn Type
- (cloth : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2010013714
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
-
- (OCoLC)606053844
- (OCoLC)ocn606053844
Subject
- Armut
- Compassion in literature
- Compassion in literature
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Englisch
- Englisch
- English fiction
- English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- Mitgefühl
- Mitleid
- Motiv
- Poor in literature
- Poor in literature
- Roman
- Social action in literature
- Social action in literature
- Social classes in literature
- Social classes in literature
- Soziale Klasse
- Soziale Klasse
- Sozialer Roman
- 1800 - 1899
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