| Description |
1 online resource (v, 247 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Essays from the English Institute |
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Essays from the English Institute.
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| Contents |
Introduction: Compassion (and withholding) / Lauren Berlant -- Compassion / 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 |
| Summary |
Annotation In Compassion, ten scholars draw on literature, psychoanalysis, and social history to provide an archive of cases and genealogies of compassion |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Compassion.
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Compassion in literature.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Emotions.
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FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Death, Grief, Bereavement.
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Compassion
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Compassion in literature
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Mitleid
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Medelijden.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Berlant, Lauren Gail, 1957-2021, editor
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| ISBN |
9780203642221 |
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0203642228 |
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9781135231651 |
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1135231656 |
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9780203871096 |
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020387109X |
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9781135231644 |
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1135231648 |
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9786610052806 |
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6610052808 |
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9780203003459 |
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0203003454 |
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9781135443757 |
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1135443750 |
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9781135443702 |
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113544370X |
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9781135443740 |
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1135443742 |
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9781583919828 |
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1583919821 |
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9781583919835 |
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158391983X |
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