Compassion's Edge: Fellow-Feeling and Its Limits in Early Modern France
- Submitting institution
-
University of Oxford
: A - 26A - Modern Languages
- Unit of assessment
- 26 - Modern Languages and Linguistics : A - 26A - Modern Languages
- Output identifier
- 620
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
-
-
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- ISBN
- 9780812249705
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
- November
- Year of publication
- 2017
- URL
-
-
- Supplementary information
-
-
- Request cross-referral to
- -
- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
- -
- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
-
0
- Research group(s)
-
-
- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This book draws on research carried out in France, Canada, the US, and the UK over a period of eight years. It enters into interdisciplinary conversation with scholars in emotion history, affect studies, and political theory. Its in-depth analysis of a wide range of canonical texts (novels, plays, treatises) is counterpointed by more surprising sources ranging from a nurse’s journal to humanitarian pamphlets. It demonstrates the centrality of Protestant refugee culture to literary study of the period, usually based on Catholic sources, and it shows how the discourse of early modern compassion shapes our understanding of social emotion today.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- -
- Author contribution statement
- -
- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
- -