Schools of Sympathy: Gender and Identification Through the Novel by Nancy Roberts

Schools of Sympathy: Gender and Identification Through the Novel

Nancy Roberts

192 pages hardcover

2 editions

nonfiction classics feminism gender medium-paced
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Roberts argues that Clarissa's, Hester's, Isabel's, and Tess's heroism or greatness is measured not by her actions but by the extent to which others are moved by her. Therefore, the character cannot be studied without studying the response she gen...

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