A Being Apart': Sympathy and Distance in Middlemarch (Prize Essay)
Title
A Being Apart': Sympathy and Distance in Middlemarch (Prize Essay)
Description
Moral philosophers have long observed that human beings strain to feel compassionate concern for people whose lives are distant from their own. Aristotle proposed in the Rhetoric that we tend to pity people who resemble us in age, character, habits, and social position because these likenesses make it easier to…
Creator
Charlie Tyson
Source
George Eliot Review
2017: 48, 7-15
2017: 48, 7-15
Publisher
GER and George Eliot Archive
Date
Published 2017
Digitized 2017
Digitized 2017
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Citation
Charlie Tyson, “A Being Apart': Sympathy and Distance in Middlemarch (Prize Essay),” George Eliot Review Online, accessed May 13, 2021, https://georgeeliotreview.org/items/show/861.