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Professor Jaffe's research and teaching focus on the Victorian novel. Her recent book, 'Victorian Novel Dreams Real: Conventions Ideology' (2016), argues that real object desire is central to understanding Victorian fiction. In 'Scenes of Sympathy' (2000), she reconceived the relationship between sympathy and imagined exchanges of social class identities. Her work also touches on the stock market and Victorian finance, along with the measurement of emotion in 'The Affective Life of the Average Man' (2010) and the idea of omniscience in Dickens as discussed in 'Vanishing Points: Dickens, Narrative, and the Subject of Omniscience' (1991). Additionally, she co-edited 'Political Economy and the Economics of Nineteenth-Century Literature: Reclaiming the Social' (Palgrave, 2019) and is currently involved in editing a volume focused on the close reading of time in the forthcoming 'George Eliot Handbook' (2025). Regularly, she teaches a variety of courses related to the development of the Victorian novel, including topics on realism, the deconstruction of the Bildungsroman, the affective novel, and the notions of empathy in literature.
Department of Sociology