Compassion’s Edge: Fellow-Feeling and Its Limits in Early Modern France.
Abstract
Katherine Ibbett explains, our definition of compassion
as an emotion with connotations of sympathy and heartfelt
concern harks back to the meaning the term began to acquire in the
eighteenth century. In the preceding early modern period, roughly
from the end of the Wars of Religion through the era of Louis XIV,
the conception and practice of compassion were subject to definite
limits, limits that are clearly visible in Le Brun’s uneasy figure and
which are explored in detail in this illuminating study.
Issue
Seventeenth-Century News: Vol. 76, Nos. 3&4
Subject
1500-1700--Periodicals Seventeenth century--PeriodicalsEnglish literature--Early modern
Compassion’s Edge: Fellow-Feeling and Its Limits in Early Modern France.
Ibbett, Katherine
Department
EnglishCollections
Citation
Hardesty Doig, Kathleen (2018). Compassion’s Edge: Fellow-Feeling and Its Limits in Early Modern France.. Texas A&M University. Available electronically from https : / /hdl .handle .net /1969 .1 /172912.