Home Ground And Foreign Territory

Download or read book Schools of Sympathy written by Nancy Roberts and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1997 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Schools of Sympathy is a feminist exploration of gender and identification in Samuel Richardson's Clarissa, Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Henry James's Portrait of a Lady, and Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles. In each of these novels the heroine is portrayed as a victim. Nancy Roberts examines how the reader's sympathy for the heroines is constructed, the motivations and desires involved in an identification with victimization, and the gender and power roles that such an identification calls into play.