The perverse gaze of sympathy
The perverse gaze of sympathy
About this book
"Suggesting that sentimental novels, films, and TV melodramas are guided by an ambivalent and sadoerotic sympathy, this book shows sympathetic sentiments to be cultural formulations of male desire, and sympathy itself to be the embodiment of a controlling gaze. In a playful but historically persuasive linkage of diverse texts, Laura Hinton shows how sympathetic spectators love their victims and, in the process, maintain authoritarian codes of sexual and racial difference."--BOOK JACKET.
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- OL Work ID
- OL450936W
Subjects
Feminism and literatureSentimentalism in literatureSympathy in literatureHistory and criticismWomen and literatureEnglish fictionRape victims in literatureSadomasochism in literatureSadomasochismTelevision criticismFlaubert, gustave, 1821-1880Bronte, emily, 1818-1848James, henry, 1843-1916Richardson, samuel, 1689-1761English fiction, history and criticism