Feeling for the poor : bourgeois compassion, social action, and the Victorian novel

Feeling for the poor : bourgeois compassion, social action, and the Victorian novel /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Betensky, Carolyn, 1962-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2010.
Series:	Victorian literature and culture series.
Subjects:	1800-1899 English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism. Poor in literature. Social classes in literature. Compassion in literature. Social action in literature. English fiction. Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: feeling for the poor
Knowing who cares and caring who knows in Michael Armstrong and Oliver Twist
Symmetry, sympathy, and the "two-nations" trope
"Nought but tears and brave words": feeling and complaining in Gaskell's industrial fiction
Felix Holt and the radicalization of feeling
"It's a passion--it's my life--it's all I care for!": befriending the poor in The Princess Casamassima.