"Made to Feel Wretched": Royall Tyler and the Trouble with Global Sympathy

Sarah Sillin argues that Tyler presents global sympathy as both necessary and problematic. Through the experiences of the protagonist, Updike Underhill, the novel shows how emotional identification with distant others can create humanitarian concern, but can also produce anxiety, vulnerability, and political uncertainty. The novel depicts encounters with enslaved Africans, foreign peoples, and Algerian captors. These encounters encourage sympathy, yet they also blur distinctions between self and other. As a result, sympathy becomes a force that can challenge American national identity rather than simply strengthen it.

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Article - Bài báo

Tác giả:

Sillin, Sarah

Đề mục:

Early American Literature

Nhà xuất bản:

University of North Carolina Press

Ngày xuất bản:

2016

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Early American Literature, Volume 51, Number 1, 2016, Pages 101-129

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ISSN 0012-8163

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