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Feeling for the poor : bourgeois compassion, social action, and the Victorian novel
- Title
- Feeling for the poor : bourgeois compassion, social action, and the Victorian novel / Carolyn Betensky.
- Author
- Betensky, Carolyn, 1962-
- Publication
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2010.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 11-210 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- ix, 225 p.; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Victorian literature and culture series
- Uniform Title
- Victorian literature and culture series.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 11-210
- ISBN
- 9780813930619 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0813930618 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2010013714
- OCLC
- 606053844
- Author
- Betensky, Carolyn, 1962-
- Title
- Feeling for the poor : bourgeois compassion, social action, and the Victorian novel / Carolyn Betensky.
- Imprint
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2010.
- Series
- Victorian literature and culture seriesVictorian literature and culture series.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 11-210