The literature of pity. ([2014])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: David Punter.
• Other Names: Punter, David
• Contents: Title page; Copyright; Contents; Plates; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Distinguishing Pity; 2 Pity and Terror: The Aristotelian Framework; 3 Pietà; PLATES; 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 DomeNotes; Bibliography; Index.
• Publisher Details: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press
• Publication Date: 2014
• Copyright Date: 2014
• Extent: 1 online resource (vi, 190 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates), illustrations (some color)
• Subjects: 809.3 23; Sympathy in literature; Sympathy; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary; LITERARY CRITICISM -- General; Sympathy; Sympathy in literature; Begriff; Englisch; Literatur; Substantiv; pity; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780748691975; 0748691979
• Related ISBNs: 9780748639496; 0748639497
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-188) and index.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.