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dc.contributor.authorFalke, Cassandra
dc.date.accessioned2022-04-13T12:14:07Z
dc.date.available2022-04-13T12:14:07Z
dc.date.issued2018-02
dc.description.abstractContemporary reviewers of Byron’s work often noted his skill in cultivating sympathy for outlaw figures – a skill that was admired, but also worried over since it implied sympathy’s independence from a moral code. Recent scholarship about sympathy in the Romantic period has not focused much on Byron, but this essay highlights acomplexity and originality in his invocation of sympathy that has been overlooked. Analyzing The Corsair with particular attention to narrative perspective and the use of direct address, this essay shows Byron portraying characters overcoming the boundaries of gendered, national, class or religious difference in acts of generous sympathy, only to have these acts rendered ineffectual or even destructive. The ineffectiveness of intradiegetic acts of sympathy complicates the text’s invitation for readerly sympathy, suggesting that sympathy is morally neutral, a catalyst for unpredictable actions.en_US
dc.identifier.citationFalke C. Byron´s Corsair and the Boundaries of Sympathy. Romantik: Journal for the Study of Romanticisms. 2017;6en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 1492950
dc.identifier.doi10.14220/jsor.2017.06.33
dc.identifier.issn2245-599X
dc.identifier.issn2246-2945
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/24785
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherRoyal Danish Libraryen_US
dc.relation.journalRomantik: Journal for the Study of Romanticisms
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccessen_US
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2017 The Author(s)en_US
dc.titleByron´s Corsair and the Boundaries of Sympathyen_US
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.typeTidsskriftartikkelen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US


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