"The Feelings of Others": Sympathy and Anti-Semitism in Maria Edgeworth's Harrington.

In the early nineteenth century, Maria Edgeworth wrote a text that was an attempt at expiation for her previous stereotypical Jewish characters. Harrington (1817) was a novel about the sources of prejudice and how to overcome it. For Edgeworth, tolerance is a process rooted in Adam Smith's theorizat...

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Published in:Eighteenth Century Fiction Vol. 31; no. 4; pp. 685 - 705
Main Author: Del Balzo, Angelina
Format: Literary Criticism
Published: University of Toronto Press Summer2019
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