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Compassion : the culture and politics of an emotion / edited by Lauren Berlant.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Essays from the English InstitutePublisher: New York ; London : Routledge, 2004Description: vi, 247 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0415970512
  • 9780415970518
  • 0415970520
  • 9780415970525
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 152.4 22
Contents:
Introduction: Compassion (and Withholding) / Lauren Berlant -- Ch. 1. Compassion / Marjorie Garber -- Ch. 2. Much of Madness and More of Sin: Compassion, for Ligeia / Candace Vogler -- Ch. 3. Calculating Compassion / Kathleen Woodward -- Ch. 4. Poor Hetty / Neil Hertz -- Ch. 5. Moving Pictures: George Eliot and Melodrama / Carolyn Williams -- Ch. 6. Provoking George Eliot / Mary Ann O'Farrell -- Ch. 7. Compassion's Compulsion / Lee Edelman -- Ch. 8. Cosmetic Surgeons of the Social: Darwin, Freud and Wells and the Limits of Sympathy on The Island of Dr. Moreau / Neville Hoad -- Ch. 9. Suffering and Thinking: The Scandal of Tone in Eichmann in Jerusalem / Deborah Nelson.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Compassion (and Withholding) / Lauren Berlant -- Ch. 1. Compassion / Marjorie Garber -- Ch. 2. Much of Madness and More of Sin: Compassion, for Ligeia / Candace Vogler -- Ch. 3. Calculating Compassion / Kathleen Woodward -- Ch. 4. Poor Hetty / Neil Hertz -- Ch. 5. Moving Pictures: George Eliot and Melodrama / Carolyn Williams -- Ch. 6. Provoking George Eliot / Mary Ann O'Farrell -- Ch. 7. Compassion's Compulsion / Lee Edelman -- Ch. 8. Cosmetic Surgeons of the Social: Darwin, Freud and Wells and the Limits of Sympathy on The Island of Dr. Moreau / Neville Hoad -- Ch. 9. Suffering and Thinking: The Scandal of Tone in Eichmann in Jerusalem / Deborah Nelson.

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