Introduction. Compasion (and withholding) / Lauren Berlant
Compasion / Marjorie Garber
Much of madness and more of sin: compassion, for Ligeia / Candace Vogler
Calculating compassion / Kathleen Woodward
Moving pictures: George Eliot and melodrama / Carolyn Williams
Provoking George Eliot / Mary Ann O'Farrell
Compassion's compulsion / Lee Edelman
Cosmetic surgeons of the social: Darwin, Freud, and Wells and the limits of sympathy on The island of Dr. Moreau / Neville Hoad
Suffering and thinking: the scandal of tone in Eichmann in Jerusalem / Deborah Nelson.