Compassion's Edge by Katherine Ibbett
Compassion's Edge traces the relation between compassion and toleration after France's Wars of Religion. This is not, however, a story about compassion overcoming difference but one of compassion reinforcing division. It provides a robust corrective to today's hope that fellow-feeling draws us inexorably and usefully together.-
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Anna Zieglerin and the Lion's Blood
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A Brief History of Doom
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The Strangers Book
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Shakespeare's Shrine
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Corporation Nation
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Wordsworth's Poetry, 1815-1845
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Addiction and Devotion in Early Modern England
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A Theater of Diplomacy
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Nationalism, Language, and Muslim Exceptionalism
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The Difficult Art of Giving
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The Poetics of Piracy
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Theatrical Nation
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Enchantment
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Unquiet Things
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Family and Empire
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Ellis Island Nation
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Animal Characters
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Antitheatricality and the Body Public
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The Socratic Turn
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The New Political Islam
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The Roman Inquisition
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Nuclear Country
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Literature After Euclid
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Ethnography in Today's World
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Radclyffe Hall
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The Roman Inquisition on the Stage of Italy, C. 1590-1640
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Kafka's Jewish Languages
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English Letters and Indian Literacies
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God's Country
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Digging the Past
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International Bohemia
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William Livingston's American Revolution
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Esperanto and Its Rivals
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The Decadent Republic of Letters
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Heroines and Local Girls
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Between Utopia and Realism
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Mary Shelley and the Rights of the Child
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God's Internationalists
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Unfaithful
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Knowing Fictions
"Ibbett's reading proves both eclectic and thorough, and she introduces her reader thoughtfully and efficiently to a vast range of thinking about compassion" * Renaissance and Reformation *
"This is in every respect a brilliant and path-breaking book. Katherine Ibbett is ferociously smart, wonderfully humane, a gloriously playful and lucid writer, and a genuinely gifted close reader. Compassion's Edge will provoke a great deal of discussion and debate, opening new avenues of reflection and research." * Christopher Braider, University of Colorado at Boulder *
"Compassion's Edge is an intellectually invigorating and original study. Its finely shaded and relentlessly probing investigation never ceases to interest. Katherine Ibbett is astonishing in her ability to synthesize, in a nuanced yet dynamic fashion, a broad spectrum of critical approaches and theoretical angles on the one hand and, on the other, to draw together an impressive range of historical documents and primary literary sources." * Larry Norman, author of The Shock of the Ancient: Literature and History in Early Modern France *
"This is in every respect a brilliant and path-breaking book. Katherine Ibbett is ferociously smart, wonderfully humane, a gloriously playful and lucid writer, and a genuinely gifted close reader. Compassion's Edge will provoke a great deal of discussion and debate, opening new avenues of reflection and research." * Christopher Braider, University of Colorado at Boulder *
"Compassion's Edge is an intellectually invigorating and original study. Its finely shaded and relentlessly probing investigation never ceases to interest. Katherine Ibbett is astonishing in her ability to synthesize, in a nuanced yet dynamic fashion, a broad spectrum of critical approaches and theoretical angles on the one hand and, on the other, to draw together an impressive range of historical documents and primary literary sources." * Larry Norman, author of The Shock of the Ancient: Literature and History in Early Modern France *
Katherine Ibbett is Professor of French at the University of Oxford and Caroline de Jager Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780812249705 |
| ISBN 10 | 0812249704 |
| Title | Compassion's Edge |
| Author | Katherine Ibbett |
| Series | Haney Foundation Series |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | University of Pennsylvania Press |
| Year published | 2017-12-04 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
| Prizes | Winner of Winner of the 2018 Society for Renaissance Studies Book Prize 2021 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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