... . "Trading Places in Fancy": Hawthorne's critique of Sympathetic Identifcation in The Blithedale Romance FRANK CHRISTIANSON 1 am not sure that . . . the Blithedale Romance [is]not, strictly speaking, [a] novel rather than [a]romance...

...MARION RUST EZRA TAWIL, The Making of Racial Sentiment: Slavery and the Birth of the Frontier Romance (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2006), pp. 254, cloth, $85.00. Copyright © Novel Corp. 2006 2006 Sympathetic Racialism EZRA TAM71L, The Making of Racial Sentiment...

... Agricultural Labourer . By W. Hasbach. London: King, 1908 . Webb , Sidney , and Beatrice Webb. English Local Government: The Story of the King's Highway . New York: Longmans, 1913 . The Rise of the State as a Sympathetic Liberal Subject...

... that compels the physical resonance of an emblematic colonized space and the conscripted Black bodies that occupy it (23). In this instance, I think the technical denotation of “sympathetic vibration” pertains: a source of vibration compels the physical resonance of proximate bodies. By contrast, Napolin's...

...Paul Hurh In recent criticism of Herman Melville's Pierre , Pierre's incestuous desire poses a challenge to the sympathetic model of democratic sociality: in transgressing filial distinctions, it erases the difference that makes sympathy possible and illustrates a limit point to the fantasy...

.... By sympathetically rendering the linguistic peculiarities of nineteenth-century professionals, Eliot positioned herself as a social mediator who could bridge the gap between the reading public and an increasingly sophisticated division of labor, thus inaugurating a trend in the novel that has continued...

... the contemporary African literary novel, as a form, registers a response to the historical degradation of Black lives under the colonial matrix of power, which, while often sympathetic with the analytic framework of Black Lives Matter, does not always cohere with it. Reading a broad range of texts , the essay...

... with newly enfranchised Irish populations—the very modes of thought and feeling Enlightenment theories of sociality had classified as disruptive to sympathetic economy—prove key to internalizing and embodying statistical abstractions. The unruly affective signature of the masses long designated...

... of an “empathic realism,” which can be defined both against what Meghan Marie Hammond has recently called “empathic modernism” and in contradistinction to nineteenth-century “sympathetic realism.” Poised between pre- and postwar outlooks, his work provides valuable insights on the changing contours of empathetic...

...Rachel Ablow Greiner Rae , Sympathetic Realism in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction ( Baltimore : Johns Hopkins UP , 2012 ) , pp. 224, cloth , $60.00 . Copyright © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 What does it feel like to read a novel? For Georges Poulet, it feels like...

... in their moral influ- ence over husbands who were forced to engage with the materialism and self-interest of the competitive commercial world. The opposing domestic values sustained by a loving wife provided a sympathetic sphere in which men could discover and develop their best selves. The investment...

..., the problem of an extra-linguistic "sympathetic" mode of communication pervades Charlotte Bronte's novel Jane Eyre. At times, the novel explicitly engages a definition of sympathy as "fellow feeling"; this as- pect of the text can be connected to Victorian debates over charity and social mo- rality...

... as a sensation in the observer. Strikingly, Gil-Martin’s act of sympathetic mimicry— whereby he reads and imitates the other person’s expressive countenance and in doing so takes over his sensations and inward thoughts—performs a collapse of the Smithian into the Humean model of sympathy. Or rather...

.... Oddly, in a passage gesturing toward future sympathetic relations in a provincial town, the stare here most resembles the urban strategy of claiming isolation amid social propinquity familiar to any- one who has ridden the subway and learned the first rule of city life: never make eye contact...

... of the sympathetic bond between them.' Walter recognizes Laura, in other words, because he loves her and so has privi- leged access to the most basic grounds of her identity. Insofar as this sympathetic ' In "The Sensationalism of The Woman In Whrte," for example, Walter Kendrick argues...

... not just because we are similarly embodied beings but also be- cause the status of physical suffering, and of material reality itself, is knowable and true. But in Miss Lonelyhearts, our laughter, like our sympathetic identification with either the subject or object of the violence, is foreclosed...

... it sympathetically (xv). On the one hand, a wide-gauge “history of taste”; on the other, “ambivalence,” with its aura of individual psychology. Yeazell’s is an accomplished book, at once meticulous and highly readable, in which narratives of social meaning-making interact in complex, often uneasy ways...

... | problems of witnessing 141 on one aspect of the problem, the way moral epistemology in the novel is conven- tionally connected to the experience of sympathetic witnessing—the emotional paradigm of being changed, via empathy, by the sufferings of others. Longevity seems to alter the terms...

..., she is equally concerned with the mechanics of sympathetic action, the conditions and proto- cols under which fellow-feeling can be turned to account. In its call for an ever- widening perspective, Eliot's sympathy was to an earlier Victorian sentimentality what the new charity was to the old...

... of British readers that India in general was lawless and in desperate need of British policing and civilizing. Taylor went on to write a series of novels about India, including his 1872 "Mutiny" novel Sreta, distinguished both by its sympathetic portrayal of an inter- racial love-affair and by its...