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Compassion's edge : fellow-feeling and its limits in early modern France / Katherine Ibbett.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Shakespeare Library (Van Pelt 628) PQ239 .I23 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ibbett, Katherine, author.
- Series:
- Haney Foundation series.
- Haney Foundation series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wars of the Huguenots (France : 1562-1598).
- French literature--16th century--History and criticism.
- French literature.
- French literature--17th century--History and criticism.
- Compassion in literature.
- France--History--Wars of the Huguenots, 1562-1598.
- France.
- Religion and politics--France--History--17th century.
- Religion and politics.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 296 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2018]
- Contents:
- Introduction : compassion's edge
- Pitiful sights : reading the wars of religion
- The compassion machine : theories of fellow-feeling, 1570-1692
- Caritas, compassion, and religious difference
- Pitiful states : marital miscompassion and the historical novel
- Affective absolutism and the problem of religious difference
- Compassionate labor in seventeenth-century Montreal
- Epilogue : something like compassion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-285) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780812249705
- 0812249704
- OCLC:
- 994296656
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