Compassion the culture and politics of an emotion

Contributor(s):

Berlant, Lauren Gail

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Essays from the English InstitutePublication details: New York Routledge 2004Description: vi,247pISBN:

9780415970525

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DDC classification:

177.7 22 CO-

Contents:

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.

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