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Feeling for the Poor: Bourgeois Compassion, Social Action, & Victorian Novel
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller Notes
- Subject Area
- Literary Studies, Social System, Social Work
- Features
- Dust Jacket
- Subject
- Language & Literature, Literature
- ISBN
- 9780813930619
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
ISBN-10
0813930618
ISBN-13
9780813930619
eBay Product ID (ePID)
92452289
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Publication Name
Feeling for the Poor : Bourgeois Compassion, Social Action & the Victorian Novel
Language
English
Publication Year
2010
Subject
European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Subjects & Themes / General
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism
Series
Victorian Literature and Culture Ser.
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
16.9 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2010-013714
Reviews
"Carolyn Betensky brings an original point of view and an engaging writer's voice to bear on the well-developed subject of the Victorian social-problem novel. In her analysis, novels stage competitions for feeling and suffering between representatives of powerful and powerless classes, acting finally as self-comforting fictions for the bourgeois reader and writer. Betensky's skills and talents as a critic are evident. The writing style is quite delightful -- fresh, frank, and clear, with wonderful moments of ironic wit."" -- Rosemarie Bodenheimer, Boston College, author of Knowing Dickens, Carolyn Betensky brings an original point of view and an engaging writer's voice to bear on the well-developed subject of the Victorian social-problem novel. In her analysis, novels stage competitions for feeling and suffering between representatives of powerful and powerless classes, acting finally as self-comforting fictions for the bourgeois reader and writer. Betensky's skills and talents as a critic are evident. The writing style is quite delightful-fresh, frank, and clear, with wonderful moments of ironic wit., Carolyn Betensky brings an original point of view and an engaging writer's voice to bear on the well-developed subject of the Victorian social-problem novel. In her analysis, novels stage competitions for feeling and suffering between representatives of powerful and powerless classes, acting finally as self-comforting fictions for the bourgeois reader and writer. Betensky's skills and talents as a critic are evident. The writing style is quite delightful--fresh, frank, and clear, with wonderful moments of ironic wit., Carolyn Betensky brings an original point of view and an engaging writer's voice to bear on the well-developed subject of the Victorian social-problem novel. In her analysis, novels stage competitions for feeling and suffering between representatives of powerful and powerless classes, acting finally as self-comforting fictions for the bourgeois reader and writer. Betensky's skills and talents as a critic are evident. The writing style is quite delightful -- fresh, frank, and clear, with wonderful moments of ironic wit."
Grade From
College Graduate Student
Illustrated
Yes
Synopsis
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., What if the political work of Victorian social-problem novels was precisely to make the reader feel as if reading them--in and of itself--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., What if the political work of Victorian social-problem novels was precisely to make the reader feel as if reading them?in and of itself?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.
LC Classification Number
PR878.P66B47 2010
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- a***u (1418)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseQuality used book in the condition as described in the listing. Though used, it is a good value with a fine appearance. Shipped unbelievably fast for media mail. Well packaged and protected in shipment.
- 5***8 (4)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseShould have made clear that there were more than one copies and I would have bought two to save shipping cost.Reply from: roseofsharonbooks- Feedback replied by seller roseofsharonbooks.- Feedback replied by seller roseofsharonbooks.There was only one copy.
- _***r (40)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseItem was well packaged, arrived in good condition and on schedule, and was exactly as described - very satisfied!