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Compassion : The Culture and Politics of an Emotion
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Berlant, Lauren Gail, 1957-2021.
- Series:
- Essays from the English Institute Compassion
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Compassion.
- Compassion in literature.
- Local Subjects:
- Compassion.
- Compassion in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (253 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Routledge, 2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In Compassion, ten scholars draw on literature, psychoanalysis, and social history to provide an archive of cases and genealogies of compassion
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 9786610109456
- 1-280-10945-9
- 1-135-44374-2
- 1-135-44375-0
- 0-415-97051-2
- 0-203-87109-X
- 1-280-05280-5
- 9780203871096
- OCLC:
- 56553421
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