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SUMMARY:POSTPONED - Postcolonial Writing and Theory Seminar - Title TBC - 
 Carolyn Burdett (Birkbeck\, University of London)
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DESCRIPTION:\nStatus: This talk has been cancelled\nCarolyn Burdett (Birkb
 eck) --Unconfirmed.\nRegister in advance for this webinar:\nhttps://zoom.u
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  (Birkbeck\, University of London)
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SUMMARY:Science\, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century Seminars 
 in Trinity Term 2018: Sympathy limits in Daniel Deronda - Carolyn Burdett 
 (Birkbeck\, University of London)
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DESCRIPTION:From the 1860s sympathy emerged as a key term in naturalistic 
 dispute about mechanisms of evolution and the relation of human to animal 
 life. This paper argues that we need to look closely at these debates in o
 rder to have a fuller account of the role sympathy played in the ethical a
 nd artistic changes of the ‘end’ of Victorianism. Sympathy’s part in
  its own vanishing conditions during the final three decades of the ninete
 enth century has not yet been fully explained. As literary historians inva
 riably turn to George Eliot to help grasp the scope and power of secular m
 odern sympathy\, I go to her final novel\, Daniel Deronda\, to find insigh
 t about its waning. While sympathy is explicitly referenced on more occasi
 ons in Daniel Deronda than in any other of Eliot’s fictions\, many reade
 rs have noted profound changes that propel the narrative simultaneously be
 yond both sympathy and realism. Might sympathy\, paradoxically\, be a key 
 to grasping why Eliot’s last novel is full of terror and dread\, magic a
 nd divination\, Gothicism and melodrama? I conclude by briefly suggesting 
 that sympathy in the final decades of the nineteenth century is part of th
 e same nexus of concepts that produce a new term\, empathy\, seen by some 
 in the twenty-first century to have largely replaced sympathy in referenci
 ng affective and ethical capacity. \nSpeakers:\nCarolyn Burdett (Birkbeck\
 , University of London)
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