Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-188) and index.
Contents:
After thought : under the dome. Pity and terror : the Aristotelian framework -- Pietà€ -- Shakespeare on pity -- The eighteenth century -- Blake : pity would be no more -- Aspects of Victoriana -- Chekhov and Brecht : pity and self-pity -- War, and the pity of war : Wilfred Owen, David Jones, Primo Levi -- Reflections on Algernon Blackwood's Gothic -- Pity's cold extremities : Jean Rhys and Stevie Smith -- Reclaiming the savage night -- Pity the poor immigrant : pity, diaspora, the colony -- Lyric and pity -- After thought : under the dome.
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