Compassion : the culture and politics of an emotion / edited by Lauren Berlant.
Contributor(s): Berlant, Lauren Gail
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Series: Essays from the English Institute. Publisher: New York : Routledge, 2004Description: vi, 247 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 0415970512; 0415970520 (pbk.).Subject(s): Compassion | Compassion in literatureDDC classification: 177/.7
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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BardBerlinLibrary | 177.7 2004 (Browse shelf) | Available |
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.
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