Vicarious Narratives: A Literary History of Sympathy PDF
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OUPCORRECTEDPROOF–FINAL,26/8/2019,SPi Vicarious Narratives OUPCORRECTEDPROOF–FINAL,26/8/2019,SPi OUPCORRECTEDPROOF–FINAL,26/8/2019,SPi Vicarious Narratives A Literary History of Sympathy, – 1750 1850 JEANNE M. BRITTON 1 OUPCORRECTEDPROOF–FINAL,26/8/2019,SPi 3 GreatClarendonStreet,Oxford,OX26DP, UnitedKingdom OxfordUniversityPressisadepartmentoftheUniversityofOxford. ItfurtherstheUniversity’sobjectiveofexcellenceinresearch,scholarship, andeducationbypublishingworldwide.Oxfordisaregisteredtrademarkof OxfordUniversityPressintheUKandincertainothercountries ©JeanneM.Britton2019 Themoralrightsoftheauthorhavebeenasserted FirstEditionpublishedin2019 Impression:1 Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthispublicationmaybereproduced,storedin aretrievalsystem,ortransmitted,inanyformorbyanymeans,withoutthe priorpermissioninwritingofOxfordUniversityPress,orasexpresslypermitted bylaw,bylicenceorundertermsagreedwiththeappropriatereprographics rightsorganization.Enquiriesconcerningreproductionoutsidethescopeofthe aboveshouldbesenttotheRightsDepartment,OxfordUniversityPress,atthe addressabove Youmustnotcirculatethisworkinanyotherform andyoumustimposethissameconditiononanyacquirer PublishedintheUnitedStatesofAmericabyOxfordUniversityPress 198MadisonAvenue,NewYork,NY10016,UnitedStatesofAmerica BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationData Dataavailable LibraryofCongressControlNumber:2019937523 ISBN 978–0–19–884669–7 DOI:10.1093/oso/9780198846697.001.0001 PrintedandboundinGreatBritainby ClaysLtd,ElcografS.p.A. OUPCORRECTEDPROOF–FINAL,26/8/2019,SPi formyparents JohnandKathyBritton OUPCORRECTEDPROOF–FINAL,26/8/2019,SPi OUPCORRECTEDPROOF–FINAL,26/8/2019,SPi Acknowledgments FromitsfirstincarnationasadissertationattheUniversityofChicagoand through its transformations elsewhere, this book has benefitted from the guidance, encouragement, and support of many people. My ideas about sympathywereprofoundlyinfluencedbyJamesChandler.Iamalsograteful toThomasPavelfornudgingmetothinkmoreaboutcharactersinfictional sympatheticencountersandRobertMorrisseyforpushingmetothinkmore abouttheFrenchRevolution.AttheUniversityofChicago,Ialsobenefitted fromtheinsightsofElaineHadley,SandraMacpherson,RobinValenza,and discussions of the Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Reading Group. Generous support from the Franke Institute of Humanities propelled the original project to completion. Early versions of portions of this book have previouslyappearedin“NovelisticSympathyinMaryShelley’sFrankenstein,” Studies in Romanticism 48.1 (2009): 3–22; and “Translating Sympathy by the Letter: Henry Mackenzie, Sophie de Condorcet, and Adam Smith,” Eighteenth-CenturyFiction22.2(2009):71–98.Iamgratefultothepublishers fortheirpermissiontousethismaterialhere. At various points in this process, I have relied on the following people for their advice, questions, generosity, and humor: Rachel Ablow, Sarah Berry, Claire Colebrook, Danielle Coriale, Eurie Dahn, Susan Edmunds, Paula Feldman, Mike Goode, Emily Harrington, Tony Jarrells, Nicholas Joukovsky,ClaudiaKlaver,PatriciaRoylance,RobinSchulze,LisaSternlieb, andLindaShires.ThankstoanEmersonFellowshipatSyracuseUniversity, I was able to devote substantial time to reformulating the book’s methods and argument. I would also like to thank members of the Faculty Writing GroupatSyracuseUniversityandtheUpstateNewYork19cReadingGroup aswellasstudentsinmygraduatecoursesatPennStateUniversityandthe UniversityofSouthCarolinafortheirquestionsandconversation. I am thrilled to have completed this book at USC, my alma mater, as a member of the library faculty in the Irvin Department of Rare Books and Special Collections. In addition to working among first editions of novels Idiscussin this book, I have been very fortunate to work alongside Jessica Crouch and Michael Weisenburg and under the leadership of Associate DeanElizabethSudduthandDeanThomasMcNally.AtOxfordUniversity OUPCORRECTEDPROOF–FINAL,26/8/2019,SPi viii Press,IamgratefultoRobertFaber,StephanieIreland,EleanorCollins,and Aimee Wright. The informed comments and insightful questions of two anonymous readers reshaped the book’s argument and strengthened its details. Mymostheartfeltthanksareformytirelesssupporters:myparentsJohn and Kathy Britton, and my husband and best friend Jody Fowler. Their unwavering confidence has sustained me and this book. Completing it—a bookaboutresemblanceandfraternity—asamotherofidenticaltwinboys has, to say the least, altered my understanding of some of its central concepts. Thanks to Simon and Oliver, I can look forward to many years ofbeinganeagerwitnesstothefrequenthappinessandoccasionalstrifeof brotherhood. OUPCORRECTEDPROOF–FINAL,26/8/2019,SPi Contents Introduction:DefiningSympathy 1 Smith’sSympathyandtheHistoryoftheNovel 10 Sympathy,LiteraryForm,andHistory 14 1. 1759and1794:MoralSentiments,PoliticalRevolution, andNarrativeForm 22 HistoricalTortureandFictionalImagination 26 AdamSmith’s“OurBrother...upontheRack”in Post-RevolutionaryFrance 30 BodiesandPersonsinSympathy’sGrammarofVicarious Experience 37 “ThingsasTheyAre”or“AsIfTheyWereMyOwn”in CalebWilliams 41 KinshipinSmith’sSympathy 56 ThroughSmith’sWindow:FromVisualPerceptionto ImaginativePerspective 59 2. LettersintheNovelandtheNovelinLetters:Henry Mackenzie’sJuliadeRoubignéandtheAfterlifeofthe EpistolaryNovel 70 SympathyandtheEpistolaryNovel 72 Correspondence,Soliloquy,andMackenzie’sNovelistic Voices 79 Mackenzie’sReformulationofEpistolaryPerspectives 84 SharedLanguageandRacialDifference 89 3. LaurenceSterneintheRomanticAnthology 93 LiteraryAnthologies:SentimentalExtractsandReading Strategies 97 Sterne’sStarlingandtheMechanicsofCitation 102 “TheNegroGirl”ofTristramShandy 108 Torture,Kinship,andtheJewishBodyinTristram Shandy 117 AnimalMindsandPerspectivalSympathy 122
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