Compassion: the culture and politics of an emotion

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

Poor Hetty / Neil Hertz

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.