Compassion's Edge examines the language of fellow-feeling-pity,
compassion, and charitable care-that flourished in France in the
period from the Edict of Nantes in 1598, which established some
degree of religious toleration, to the official breakdown of that
toleration with the Revocation of the Edict in 1685. This is not,
however, a story about compassion overcoming difference but one of
compassion reinforcing division: the seventeenth-century texts of
fellow-feeling led not to communal concerns but to paralysis,
misreading, and isolation. Early modern fellow-feeling drew
distinctions, policed its borders, and far from reaching out to
others, kept the other at arm's length. It became a central feature
in the debates about the place of religious minorities after the
Wars of Religion, and according to Katherine Ibbett, continues to
shape the way we think about difference today. Compassion's Edge
ranges widely over genres, contexts, and geographies. Ibbett reads
epic poetry, novels, moral treatises, dramatic theory, and
theological disputes. She takes up major figures such as D'Aubigne,
Montaigne, Lafayette, Corneille, and Racine, as well as less
familiar Jesuit theologians, Huguenot ministers, and nuns from a
Montreal hospital. Although firmly rooted in early modern studies,
she reflects on the ways in which the language of compassion
figures in contemporary conversations about national and religious
communities. Investigating the affective undertow of religious
toleration, Compassion's Edge provides a robust corrective to
today's hope that fellow-feeling draws us inexorably and usefully
together.
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