Compassion in early modern literature and culture : feeling and practice / edited by Kristine Steenbergh, Katherine Ibbett.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Steenbergh, Kristine, editor.

Ibbett, Katherine, editor.

Cambridge University Press.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.

English literature.

Compassion in literature.

Christianity and literature--England--History--16th century.

Christianity and literature.

England.

History.

Christianity and literature--England--History--17th century.

Literature and society--England--History--16th century.

Literature and society.

Literature and society--England--History--17th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 305 pages)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021.

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [2021]

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Theorizing. The ethics of compassion in early modern England / Bruce R. Smith

The compassionate self of the Catholic Reformation / Katherine Ibbett

Consoling. 'Hee left them not comfortlesse by the way' : grief and compassion in early modern English consolatory culture / Paula Barros

Friendship, counsel, and compassion in early modern medical thought / Stephen Pender

Exhorting. 'Compassion and mercie draw teares from the godlyfull often' : the rhetoric of sympathy in the early modern sermon / Richard Meek

Mollified hearts and enlarged bowels : practising compassion in Reformation England / Kristine Steenbergh

Performing. Civic liberties and community compassion : the Jesuit drama of Poland-Lithuania / Clarinda E. Calma and Jolanta Rzegocka

Compassion, contingency and conversion in James Shirley's The sisters / Alison Searle

Responding. Mountainish inhumanity in Illyria : compassion in Twelfth night as social luxury and political duty / Elisabetta Tarantino

Standing on a beach : Shakespeare and the sympathetic imagination / Eric Langley

Giving. 'To feel what wretches feel' : Reformation and the re-naming of English compassion / Toria Johnson

Alms petitions and compassion in sixteenth-century London / Rebecca Tomlin

Racializing. Pity and empire in the Brevísima relación de la destrucción de las Indias (1552) / Matthew Goldmark

'Our Black hero' : compassion for friends and others in Aphra Behn's Oroonoko / John Staines

Contemporary compassions : interrelating in the Anthropocene / Kristine Steenbergh.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Cambridge Available via World Wide Web.

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Other Format:

Print version: Compassion in early modern literature and culture

ISBN:

9781108856508

1108856500

9781108862172

1108862179

Publisher Number:

99987453449

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