The Literature of Pity

Traces an entire history of pity, as an emotion and as an element in the arts GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN:9780748639496','ISBN:9780748691975']); Pity represents a combination of fear, helplessness and overwhelming agitation. It is a term which suffuses our everyday lives; it is also a dangerous term hovering between approval of sympathy and disapproval of emotional wallowing (as in 'self-pity'). This book traces an entire history of pity, as an emotion and as an element in the arts, enga