Compassion in Early Modern Literature and Culture (eBook, ePUB)

Feeling and Practice
Redaktion: Steenbergh, Kristine

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. April 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108856430
• Artikelnr.: 62746772

Autorenporträt

Kristine Steenbergh is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Kristine Steenbergh and Katherine Ibbett; Part I. Theorizing:
1. The ethics of compassion in early modern England Bruce R. Smith; 2. The
compassionate self of the Catholic Reformation Katherine Ibbett; Part II.
Consoling: 3. 'Hee left them not comfortlesse by the way': grief and
compassion in early modern English consolatory culture Paula Barros; 4.
Friendship, counsel, and compassion in early modern medical thought Stephen
Pender; Part III. Exhorting: 5. 'Compassion and mercie draw teares from the
godlyfull often': the rhetoric of sympathy in the early modern sermon
Richard Meek; 6. Mollified hearts and enlarged bowels: practising
compassion in reformation England Kristine Steenbergh; Part IV. Performing:
7. Civic liberties and community compassion: the Jesuit drama of
Poland-Lithuania Clarinda E. Calma and Jolanta Rzegocka; 8. Compassion,
contingency and conversion in James Shirley's The Sisters Alison Searle;
Part V. Responding: 9. Mountainish inhumanity in Illyria: compassion in
Twelfth Night as social luxury and political duty Elisabetta Tarantino; 10.
Standing on a beach: Shakespeare and the sympathetic imagination Eric
Langley; Part VI. Giving: 11. 'To feel what wretches feel': Reformation and
the re-naming of English compassion Toria Johnson; 12. Alms petitions and
compassion in sixteenth-century London Rebecca Tomlin; Part VII.
Racializing: 13. Pity and empire in the Brevísima relación de la
destrucción de las Indias (1552) Matthew Goldmark; 14. 'Our Black hero':
compassion for friends and others in Aphra Behn's Oroonoko John Staines;
Part VIII. Contemporary Compassions: 15. Contemporary compassions:
interrelating in the Anthropocene Kristine Steenbergh.