Compassion in Early Modern Literature and Culture
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Compassion in Early Modern Literature and Culture

Feeling and Practice

Katherine Ibbett, Kristine Steenbergh

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Compassion in Early Modern Literature and Culture

Feeling and Practice

Katherine Ibbett, Kristine Steenbergh

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This collection is an enquiry into compassion as an early modern emotional phenomenon, situating it within the complexity of European economic, social, cultural and religious tensions. Drawing on recent work in the history of emotions, leading scholars consider the particularities of early modern compassion, demonstrating its entanglements with diverse genres and geographies. Chapters on canonical and less familiar works explore tragedy, comedy, sermons, philosophy, treatises on consolation, medical writing, and dramatic theory, showing how early modern compassion shaped attitudes and social structures that remain central to the way we imagine our response to suffering today, and how such investigations can ultimately provoke new ways of thinking about community in contemporary Europe.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2021
ISBN
9781108856508
Topic
Littérature
Subtopic
Critique littéraire européenne

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