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Compassion's edge :

0812249704

9780812249705

Compassion's edge :

[Book]

fellow-feeling and its limits in early modern France /

Katherine Ibbett.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania :

University of Pennsylvania Press,

[2018]

©2018

296 pages :

illustrations ;

24 cm.

Haney Foundation series

Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-285) and index.

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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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 in literature.

French literature-- 16th century-- History and criticism.

French literature-- 17th century-- History and criticism.

Religion and politics-- France-- History-- 17th century.

Compassion in literature.

Einfühlung

French literature.

Literatur

Mitgefühl

Religion and politics.

France, History, Wars of the Huguenots, 1562-1598.

France.

Frankreich

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