Compassion in Early Modern Literature and Culture - Feeling and Practice

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.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	June 2023
Editors:	Kristine Steenbergh
Authors:	Katherine Ibbett
Pages:	317
ISBN-13:	978-1-108-81802-5
Categories:	Books
LSN:	1-108-81802-1
Barcode:	9781108818025

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