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Orientalism and Sympathy in Maria Susanna Cummins's El Fureidîs
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The Lamplighter has long monopolized scholarship on Maria Susanna Cummins and her treatment of sympathy, despite the rich sympathetic texture of her other three novels: Mabel Vaughan has more than seventy references to sympathy; Haunted Hearts is saturated with allusions to "heart"; and El Fureidîs teems with signs of sympathy. Craig Taylor has defined sympathy as "a primitive response to another's suffering which is partially constitutive of our understanding of what it is to suffer as a human being" (113); Lauren Wispé characterizes it as "the increased sensibility of another person's suffering as something to be alleviated" (68). These definitions of sympathy derive from A Treatise of ...
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