Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Plates
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Distinguishing Pity
- 2 Pity and Terror: The Aristotelian Framework
- 3 Pietà
- 4 Shakespeare on Pity
- 5 The Eighteenth Century
- 6 Blake: ‘Pity would be no more …’
- 7 Aspects of Victoriana
- 8 Chekhov and Brecht: Pity and Self-Pity
- 9 ‘War, and the pity of War’: Wilfred Owen, David Jones, Primo Levi
- 10 Reflections on Algernon Blackwood's Gothic
- 11 Pity's Cold Extremities: Jean Rhys and Stevie Smith
- 12 Reclaiming the Savage Night
- 13 ‘Pity the Poor Immigrant’: Pity, Diaspora, the Colony
- 14 Lyric and Pity
- After Thought: Under the Dome
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Bibliography
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 September 2014
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Plates
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Distinguishing Pity
- 2 Pity and Terror: The Aristotelian Framework
- 3 Pietà
- 4 Shakespeare on Pity
- 5 The Eighteenth Century
- 6 Blake: ‘Pity would be no more …’
- 7 Aspects of Victoriana
- 8 Chekhov and Brecht: Pity and Self-Pity
- 9 ‘War, and the pity of War’: Wilfred Owen, David Jones, Primo Levi
- 10 Reflections on Algernon Blackwood's Gothic
- 11 Pity's Cold Extremities: Jean Rhys and Stevie Smith
- 12 Reclaiming the Savage Night
- 13 ‘Pity the Poor Immigrant’: Pity, Diaspora, the Colony
- 14 Lyric and Pity
- After Thought: Under the Dome
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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- The Literature of Pity , pp. 183 - 188Publisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2014