Compassion the culture and politics of an emotion
Compassion the culture and politics of an emotion
- New York Routledge 2004
- vi,247p.
- Essays from the English Institute .
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction. Compasion (and withholding) / Lauren Berlant -- Compasion / Marjorie Garber -- Much of madness and more of sin: compassion, for Ligeia / Candace Vogler -- Calculating compassion / Kathleen Woodward -- Poor Hetty / Neil Hertz -- Moving pictures: George Eliot and melodrama / Carolyn Williams -- Provoking George Eliot / Mary Ann O'Farrell -- Compassion's compulsion / Lee Edelman -- Cosmetic surgeons of the social: Darwin, Freud, and Wells and the limits of sympathy on The island of Dr. Moreau / Neville Hoad -- Suffering and thinking: the scandal of tone in Eichmann in Jerusalem / Deborah Nelson.
9780415970525
Compassion.
Compassion in literature.
177.7 / CO-
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction. Compasion (and withholding) / Lauren Berlant -- Compasion / Marjorie Garber -- Much of madness and more of sin: compassion, for Ligeia / Candace Vogler -- Calculating compassion / Kathleen Woodward -- Poor Hetty / Neil Hertz -- Moving pictures: George Eliot and melodrama / Carolyn Williams -- Provoking George Eliot / Mary Ann O'Farrell -- Compassion's compulsion / Lee Edelman -- Cosmetic surgeons of the social: Darwin, Freud, and Wells and the limits of sympathy on The island of Dr. Moreau / Neville Hoad -- Suffering and thinking: the scandal of tone in Eichmann in Jerusalem / Deborah Nelson.
9780415970525
Compassion.
Compassion in literature.
177.7 / CO-