Vicarious Narratives by Jeanne M. Britton, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters
Vicarious Narratives by Jeanne M. Britton, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

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Vicarious Narratives by Jeanne M. Britton, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

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Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759) defines sympathy as a series of shifts in perspective by which one sees from a different point of view. British and French novels published over the following century redefine sympathy through narrative form - shifting perspectives or \"storieswithin stories\" in which one character adopts the voice and perspective of another. Fiction follows Smith's emphasis on sympathy's shifting perspectives, but this formal echo coincides with a challenge. For Smith and other Enlightenment philosophers, the experience of sympathy relies on humanresemblance. In novels, by contrast, characters who are separated by nationality, race, or species experience a version of sympathy that struggles to accommodate such differences. Encounters between these characters produce shifts in perspective or framed tales as one character sympathizes withanother and begins to tell her story, echoing Smith's definition of sympathy in their form while challenging Enlightenment philosophy's insistence on human resemblance. Works of sentimental and gothic fiction published between 1750 and 1850 generate a novelistic version of sympathy by manipulating traditional narrative forms (epistolary fiction, embedded tales) and new publication practices (the anthology, the novelistic extract). Second-hand stories transform thevocal mobility, emotional immediacy, and multiple perspectives associated with the declining genre of epistolary fiction into the narrative levels and shifting speakers of nineteenth-century frame tales. Vicarious Narratives argues that fiction redefines sympathy as the struggle to overcomedifference through the active engagement with narrative - by listening to, re-telling, and transcribing the stories of others. | Vicarious Narratives by Jeanne M. Britton, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

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