Introduction Chapter 1Sympathy as a Continuous Historical Concept 1.1 Sympathy as the Embryo "Pity」 in Aristotelian Tragedy 1.2 Sympathy as the "Secret Operation of Feeling」 in theAge of Sensibility 1.3 Sympathy as the 「Sympathetic Imagination」in theRomantic Aesthetics 1.4 Sympathy as the "Extension of Sympathies」 in theVictorian Novel Theory Chapter 2 The Realism-cum-sympathy Aesthetics in Adam Bede 2.1 The Realism-cum-sympathy Aesthetic and an EnlargedMoral Awareness 2.2 Adam Bede and Adam's Inarticulate Suffering 2.3 Sympathy Transformed and the Growth of HigherFeelings 2.4 Realism and the Humbly Faithful Dutch Painting Chapter 3 Sympathy and the Epistemological Relativism in The Lifted Veil 3.1 The Lifted Veil and Latimer's Nightmare 3.2 The Other People's Mind and the Epistemological Rela 3.3 Sympathy Transformed and the Growth of Mind 3.4 Realism and the Cultural Schizophrenia Chapter 4 Sympathy and the Sublime Enquiry in The Mill on the Floss and Middlemarch 4.1 Maggie Tulliver's Anger and Dorothea Brooke's Terror 4.2 The Divisive Social Body and the Sublime Enquiry 4.3 Sympathy Transformed and the Emergence of theSovereign Self 4.4 Realism and the Panoramic View of the Organic Whole Chapter 5. Sympathy and the Political Vision in Daniel Deronda 5.1 Daniel Deronda and Daniel's 「Sabine Warrior」 5.2 Community Lost and Individual Socialized 5.3 Sympathy Transformed and Restoration of the Communal Consensus 5.4 Realism and the Myth-making Conclusion Bibliography
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