Compassion's edge : fellow-feeling and its limits in early modern France /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ibbett, Katherine
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc., 2017.
Colección:Haney Foundation series.
Temas:
1500-1699
French literature > 16th century > History and criticism.
French literature > 17th century > History and criticism.
Compassion in literature.
Religion and politics > France > History > 17th century.
Littérature française > 16e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Littérature française > 17e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Compassion dans la littérature.
Religion et politique > France > Histoire > 17e siècle.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > French.
Compassion in literature
French literature
Religion and politics
France > History > Wars of the Huguenots, 1562-1598.
France > Histoire > 1562-1598 (Guerres de religion)
France
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : compassion's edge
  • Pitiful sights : reading the wars of religion
  • The compassion machine : theories of fellow-feeling, 1570-1692
  • Caritas, compassion, and religious difference
  • Pitiful states : marital miscompassion and the historical novel
  • Affective absolutism and the problem of religious difference
  • Compassionate labor in seventeenth-century Montreal
  • Epilogue : something like compassion.

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