Compassion : the culture and politics of an emotion / edited by Lauren Berlant.

Contributor(s):

Berlant, Lauren Gail, 1957-

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Essays from the English InstitutePublication details: New York : Routledge, 2004.Description: vi, 247 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:

9780415970525
0415970520 (pbk.)

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DDC classification:

177.7 COM

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Publisher description

Contents:

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.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	H.T. Parekh Library	SIAS Collection	177.7 COM (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		K815

Includes bibliographical references.
TB1394/2
GBP 27.99

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