Sympathy–Antipathy in Daniel Deronda

This article argues that, in her final novel, Daniel Deronda, Eliot uses her eponymous protagonist to simultaneously exemplify and problematize the type of sympathy she had championed from the 1850s. Sympathetic affinity in the novel works like original ‘occult’ sympathy, irresistibly connecting non...

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Main Author:	Carolyn Burdett
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Open Library of Humanities 2020-03-01
Series:	19 : Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century
Subjects:	many-sidedness sympathy–antipathy liberalism occult antipathy sympathy
Online Access:	http://19.bbk.ac.uk/article/id/1983/

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spelling	doaj-634d67f806ca4f4181369335679bef062021-08-18T09:05:34ZengOpen Library of Humanities19 : Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century1755-15602020-03-0102910.16995/ntn.1983Sympathy–Antipathy in Daniel DerondaCarolyn Burdett0English, Birkbeck, University of LondonThis article argues that, in her final novel, Daniel Deronda, Eliot uses her eponymous protagonist to simultaneously exemplify and problematize the type of sympathy she had championed from the 1850s. Sympathetic affinity in the novel works like original ‘occult’ sympathy, irresistibly connecting non-adjacent things, and matched in its force by sympathy’s original twin, antipathy. The article investigates the novel’s antipathies, arguing that Eliot eschews meliorism and offers instead a brave glimpse into the obdurate forces of hatred and destructiveness that shadow our best selves.http://19.bbk.ac.uk/article/id/1983/many-sidednesssympathy–antipathyliberalismoccultantipathysympathy
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description	This article argues that, in her final novel, Daniel Deronda, Eliot uses her eponymous protagonist to simultaneously exemplify and problematize the type of sympathy she had championed from the 1850s. Sympathetic affinity in the novel works like original ‘occult’ sympathy, irresistibly connecting non-adjacent things, and matched in its force by sympathy’s original twin, antipathy. The article investigates the novel’s antipathies, arguing that Eliot eschews meliorism and offers instead a brave glimpse into the obdurate forces of hatred and destructiveness that shadow our best selves.
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Sympathy–Antipathy in Daniel Deronda

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