ࡱ> ,.+] Dbjbjzpzp . b bD  2$QhZZZ"ZZZZK] Z0Zo6oZoZ00"Z P oB ^: Name(s): Dr. Faith Binckes and Dr. Kathryn Laing Affiliation(s): Oxford University; Mary Immaculate College Limerick Paper Title: The inconsistencies and surprises of sympathy: Hannah Lynch, Gender, Genre and Politics at the fin-de-sicle In her 2006 article on Mary F. Robinson and Vernon Lee, Emily Harrington drew attention to ways in which the two women explored the ethical responsibilities of aesthetics during the fin-de-sicle, shaping a discourse that both drew upon, and significantly altered, the templates established by their male contemporaries. This paper will follow Harrington's lead by reasserting the connection between political commitment and artistic production during the period, and emphasising the importance of female literary networks. The focus of the paper is Hannah Lynch (born Dublin 1859, died Paris 1904), Robinson's close friend and fellow salonnire, in 1890s Paris. Lynch published a range of short stories and novels from the early 1880s onwards, many of which engaged with contemporary and popular debates surrounding the New Woman, in both Irish and European contexts. Although her writing was markedly different from that of Robinson, the paper will explore the way in which depictions of "sympathy"-- either as "compassion", or as a less quantifiable act of emotional engagement-- also played a central role in Lynch's writing of the period. Lynch typically portrayed such engagements as subversive of both radical and reactionary agendas. In this sense, they provided her not only with the opportunity to explore the uncertain territory upon which we encounter others, but to negotiate the polarities driving the ambivalent category of the New Woman. However, equally important to this negotiation was Lynch's position as an migr, Catholic, Irish writer, whose writing identity was in large part shaped by the requirements of her (mainly British) publishers and readers. This paper will also pay close attention to Lynch's portrayal of the ways in which sympathy-- or the lack of it-- can cross or reinforce the barriers of national or political affiliation.  1AuX x A a X p x { } ? E I  @ ~ApD˿볧hm8hp 6OJQJhm8hm86OJQJh@ghp 6OJQJh@ghm86OJQJhm85OJQJhp hp OJQJhm8OJQJhp hp 5OJQJ+1u^ _ Dgdp ,1h. A!"#$% s2&6FVfv2(&6FVfv&6FVfv&6FVfv&6FVfv&6FVfv&6FVfv8XV~ 0@ 0@ 0@ 0@ 0@ 0@ 0@ 0@ 0@ 0@ 0@ 0@ 0@ 0@_HmH nH sH tH @`@ NormalCJ_HaJmH sH tH DA D Default Paragraph FontRiR  Table Normal4 l4a (k (No List PK![Content_Types].xmlN0EH-J@%ǎǢ|ș$زULTB l,3;rØJB+$G]7O٭Vc:E3v@P~Ds |w< DD D 8@0(  B S  ?v=mw=mx=mAHlFGRtF9*urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttagsplace=*urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags PlaceName=*urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags PlaceType pzFFwx_awx*+48:?EI^^__>@^`npCFFp m8@g$J WDF@D@UnknownG*Ax Times New Roman5Symbol3. *Cx Arial9GaramondACambria Math"qhKg'Kg'; ;  hhr4@@3HP(?p 0!xx  Name(s): DrULStaff Linda.MoloneyOh+'0d   , 8DLT\ Name(s): DrULStaffNormalLinda.Moloney2Microsoft Office Word@F#@򫩎@򫩎; ՜.+,0 hp  ӣ罻@  Name(s): Dr Title  !"$%&'()*-Root Entry Fb/1Table oWordDocument.SummaryInformation(DocumentSummaryInformation8#CompObjr  F Microsoft Word 97-2003 Document MSWordDocWord.Document.89q