Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Critical Missiles and Sympathetic Ink
- 1 Charles Dickens, Uncommercial Space-Time Traveller: Dombey and Son and the Ethics of History
- 2 Other People's Shoes: Realism, Imagination and Sympathy
- 3 The Personal, the Political and the Human, Part I: Sympathy – a Family Affair?
- 4 The Personal, the Political and the Human, Part II: Which Family Values?
- 5 The Personal, the Political and the Human, Part III: ‘The Torn Nest is Pierced by the Thorns’ –Sympathy after the Family
- Envoi: Sympathetic Magic
- Bibliography
- Index
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Critical Missiles and Sympathetic Ink
- 1 Charles Dickens, Uncommercial Space-Time Traveller: Dombey and Son and the Ethics of History
- 2 Other People's Shoes: Realism, Imagination and Sympathy
- 3 The Personal, the Political and the Human, Part I: Sympathy – a Family Affair?
- 4 The Personal, the Political and the Human, Part II: Which Family Values?
- 5 The Personal, the Political and the Human, Part III: ‘The Torn Nest is Pierced by the Thorns’ –Sympathy after the Family
- Envoi: Sympathetic Magic
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Victorian Fiction and the Insights of SympathyAn Alternative to the Hermeneutics of Suspicion, pp. 251 - 260Publisher: Anthem PressPrint publication year: 2007