Title | Compassion [electronic resource] : the culture and politics of an emotion / edited by Lauren Berlant |
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Imprint | New York : Routledge, 2004 |
Connect to | http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=115387 |
Descript | v, 247 p. : ill. ; 24 cm |
Introduction. Compasion (and withholding) / Lauren Berlant -- Compasion / 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