Audrey Jaffe: 2 books
Scenes of Sympathy
Identity and Representation in Victorian Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
In Scenes of Sympathy, Audrey Jaffe argues that representations of sympathy in Victorian fiction both reveal and unsettle Victorian ideologies of identity. Situating these representations within the context of Victorian visual culture, and offering new readings of key works by Charles Dickens, Elizabeth...
The Victorian Novel Dreams of the Real
Conventions and Ideology
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2016
Critical discussions of the Victorian realist novel tend to focus on its vivid representations of everyday life. The Victorian Novel Dreams of the Real proposes that the genre is founded in desire, moving the novels not towards a shared reality but rather toward distinct fantasies: dreams of the real....