Unsettling Sympathy

IF 0.2 3区社会学 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

VICTORIAN STUDIES Pub Date : 2023-02-01 DOI:10.2979/victorianstudies.64.4.05

Rachel Ablow

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Abstract

Abstract:Discussions of politics and the novel often turn to sympathy, or the imagination of the thoughts and feelings of others, in spite of widespread recognition of sympathy’s limitations. This essay uses Harriet Martineau’s historical romance of the Haitian Revolution, The Hour and the Man (1841), to consider how novels might seek to move or even motivate readers in ways that do not rely on sympathy. Rather than asking readers to feel for or with her characters, Martineau encourages readers to experience how slavery complicates or even precludes the possibility of sympathy.

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令人不安的同情

摘要:尽管人们普遍认识到同情的局限性，但关于政治和小说的讨论往往转向同情，或对他人思想和感情的想象。本文使用哈丽特·马蒂诺关于海地革命的历史浪漫小说《小时与人》(1841)来思考小说如何寻求以不依赖同情的方式打动甚至激励读者。马蒂诺并没有要求读者去感受她笔下的人物，而是鼓励读者去体验奴隶制是如何使同情变得复杂，甚至排除了同情的可能性。

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VICTORIAN STUDIES HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY-

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0.90

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9.10%

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