Compassion in early modern literature and culture

• Titel: Compassion in early modern literature and culture
• Titelzusatz: feeling and practice
• Mitwirkende: Steenbergh, Kristine [HerausgeberIn]
• Mitwirkende: Ibbett, Katherine [HerausgeberIn]
• Verf.angabe: edited by Kristine Steenbergh, Katherine Ibbett
• Verlagsort: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Jahr: 2021
• Umfang: xii, 305 Seiten
• Fussnoten: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 978-1-108-49539-4
• ISBN: 978-1-108-81802-5
• Schlagwörter: (s)Englisch / (s)Literatur / (s)Mitleid <Motiv> / (s)Religiosität / (z)Geschichte 1500-1700
• Dokumenttyp: Aufsatzsammlung
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Compassion in early modern literature and culture. - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021. - 1 online resource (xii, 305 pages)
• K10plus-PPN: 1748552449

Abstract

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

Abstract

"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"--