Compassion
Subtitle: the Culture and Politics of an Emotion
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2004
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 253
ISBN-13: 9780203642221
Subjects: Compassion
Description: In Compassion, ten scholars draw on literature, psychoanalysis, and social history to provide an archive of cases and genealogies of compassion.
Notes: Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Book Cover; Title; Contents; COMPASSION (AND WITHHOLDING); COMPASSION; MUCH OF MADNESS AND MORE OF SIN Compassion, for Ligeia; CALCULATING COMPASSION; POOR HETTY; MOVING PICTURES George Eliot and Melodrama; PROVOKING GEORGE ELIOT; COMPASSION'S COMPULSION; COSMETIC SURGEONS OF THE SOCIAL Darwin, Freud, and Wells and the Limits of Sympathy on The Island of Dr. Moreau; SUFFERING AND THINKING The Scandal of Tone in Eichmann in Jerusalem.