Introduction: Compassion (and Withholding) Lauren Berlant 1. Compassion Marjorie Garber 2. Much of Madness and More of Sin: Compassion, for Ligeia Candace Vogler 3. Calculating Compassion Kathleen Woodward 4. Poor Hetty Neil Hertz 5. Moving Pictures: George Eliot and Melodrama Carolyn Williams 6. Provoking George Eliot Mary Ann O'Farrell 7. Compassion's Compulsion Lee Edelman 8. Cosmetic Surgeons of the Social: Darwin, Freud and Wells and the Limits of Sympathy on The Island of Dr. Moreau Neville Hoad 9. Suffering and Thinking: The Scandal of Tone in Eichmann in Jerusalem Deborah Nelson
Lauren Berlant is Professor of English at the University of Chicago. Among her books are The Queen of America Goesto Washington City and The Anatomy of Fantasy.
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