How do we feel for others? Must we try to understand other minds? Do we have to respect others' autonomy, or even their individuality? Or might sympathy be fundamentally more intuitive, bodily and troubling? Taking as her focus the work of Virginia Woolf, D.H. Lawrence, and Vernon Lee (the first novelist to use the word 'empathy'), Kirsty Martin explores how modernist writers thought about questions of sympathetic response.
Vernon God Little (2003) is a novel by DBC Pierre. It was his debut novel and won the Booker Prize in 2003. The title character is a fifteen-year-old boy who lives in a small town in the U.S. state of Texas. When his friend Jesus Navarro commits suicide after killing sixteen bullying schoolmates, suspicion falls on Vernon, who becomes something of a scapegoat in his small hometown of Martirio. Fearing the death penalty, he goes on the run to Mexico.
Meet the cast of Jubilee Terrace, one of the most popular soap operas on British television; from Lady Whrton to hot young thing Dawn Kerridge, the show is a family favourite. Recently, however, long-standing cast member Vernon Watts, died of a heart attack. Terrible as his death was, it wasn't without its benefits, and the production team was quick to make the most of the opportunity, As news of Vernon's demise spreads, the show's bosses decide to bring back an old character.
