Compassion''s Edge - Fellow-Feeling and Its Limits in Early Modern France

Katherine Ibbett is Professor of French at the University of Oxford and Caroline de Jager Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction. Compassion's Edge

Chapter 1. Pitiful Sights: Reading the Wars of Religion

Chapter 2. The Compassion Machine: Theories of Fellow-Feeling, 1570-1692

Chapter 3. Caritas, Compassion, and Religious Difference

Chapter 4. Pitiful States: Marital Miscompassion and the Historical Novel

Chapter 5. Affective Absolutism and the Problem of Religious Difference

Chapter 6. Compassionate Labor in Seventeenth-Century Montreal

Epilogue. Something Like Compassion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Acknowledgments

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Katherine Ibbett

Zusammenfassung

Compassion's Edge traces the relation between compassion and toleration after France's Wars of Religion. This is not, however, a story about compassion overcoming difference but one of compassion reinforcing division. It provides a robust corrective to today's hope that fellow-feeling draws us inexorably and usefully together.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Katherine Ibbett
• Verlag: University of pennsylvania pr
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 30.11.2017
• EAN: 9780812249705
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-4970-5
• Seiten: 304
• Serien: Haney Foundation Series; Haney Foundation; Haney Foundation; Haney Foundation Series
• Thema: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft