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Pages: 303
Authors: Richard Meek
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-04-13 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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This is the first comprehensive study of sympathy in the early modern period, providing a deeply researched and interdisciplinary examination of its development
Compassion in Early Modern Literature and Culture
Language: en
Pages: 319
Authors: Katherine Ibbett
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-04-22 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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This collection is an enquiry into compassion as an early modern emotional phenomenon, situating it within the complexity of European economic, social, cultural
Compassion in Early Modern Literature and Culture
Language: en
Pages: 319
Authors: Kristine Steenbergh
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-04-22 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Explores how early modern Europeans responded to suffering and asks how they both described and practised compassion.
Shakespeare Against War
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Authors: Robert White
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2024-05-31 - Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

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Whilst Shakespearean drama provides eloquent calls to war, more often than not these are undercut or outweighed by compelling appeals to peaceful alternatives c
Pain and Compassion in Early Modern English Literature and Culture
Language: en
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Authors: Jan Frans van Dijkhuizen
Categories: Religion
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An examination of the themes of pain and compassion in key Renaissance writers, at a time when religious attitudes to suffering were changing.