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- Compassion in Early Modern Literature and Culture
- Compassion in Early Modern Literature and Culture
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Theorising
- Part II Consoling
- Part III Exhorting
- Part IV Performing
- Part V Responding
- Chapter 9 Mountainish Inhumanity in Illyria
- Chapter 10 Standing on a Beach
- Part VI Giving
- Part VII Racialising
- Part VIII Contemporary Compassions
- Index
Chapter 10 - Standing on a Beach
Shakespeare and the Sympathetic Imagination
from Part V - Responding
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 April 2021
- Compassion in Early Modern Literature and Culture
- Compassion in Early Modern Literature and Culture
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Theorising
- Part II Consoling
- Part III Exhorting
- Part IV Performing
- Part V Responding
- Chapter 9 Mountainish Inhumanity in Illyria
- Chapter 10 Standing on a Beach
- Part VI Giving
- Part VII Racialising
- Part VIII Contemporary Compassions
- Index
Summary
Eric Langley examines how early modern writers revisit the classically derived emblematic scenario of the shipwreck as they assess the nature of compassionate contact. In this chapter, he shows how the recurring image of the shipwreck provides insight into the extent to which vulnerability, affectivity, embeddedness or interdependence are integrated into the substructure of the subject at various historical moments. He argues that the emblem of the shipwreck is used in early modern texts, and particularly in the works of Shakespeare, to account for both the importance and cost of emotional interaction.
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- Compassion in Early Modern Literature and CultureFeeling and Practice, pp. 197 - 216Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021