Envy
Subtitle: a survey of the historic, literary, psychologic, sociologic, and political aspects -- and how we experience it today
By: Victoria C.G. Greenleaf.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Cypress House
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Fort Bragg, CA
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781879384750
Subjects: Envy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Vignettes; title: Features of envy; title: Advantages we envy; title: Reproductive envy; title: Envy by proxy; title: Envy in the ancient world; title: Envy as viewed by early Christian church fathers; title: Envy as understood by philosophers; title: Treatment of envy in renaissance literature; title: Envy in modern fiction (literary and cinematographic); title: Authors' envy of each other in literature and life; title: Views of scholars and essayists on envy; title: Envy as interpreted by psychiatrists, freudian psychoanalysts, and experimental psychologists; title: The politics of envy; title: Good and bad ways of coping with envy by the envied one and by the envier; title: The evolution of envy.