Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction. Compassion’s Edge 1
4. Chapter 1. Pitiful Sights: Reading the Wars of Religion 29
5. Chapter 2. The Compassion Machine: Theories of Fellow-Feeling, 1570–1692 60
6. Chapter 3. Caritas, Compassion, and Religious Difference 98
7. Chapter 4. Pitiful States: Marital Miscompassion and the Historical Novel 134
8. Chapter 5. Affective Absolutism and the Problem of Religious Difference 159
9. Chapter 6. Compassionate Labor in Seventeenth-Century Montreal 196
10. Epilogue. Something Like Compassion 223
11. Notes 229
12. Bibliography 263
13. Index 287
14. Acknowledgments 293