Pity in fin-de-siècle French culture : "liberté, égalité, pitié" / Gonzalo J. Sánchez, Jr.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [277]-300) and index.

Introduction: Pity, Past and Present -- Prologue: Composing the French Pro-Pity Tradition -- Pt. I. Pity at the Center of a Renascent Sentimentalism -- 1. "Affective Philosophy": Pity as Cognitive Sentiment -- 2. The "Altar" of Civilization -- 3. Between Social Psychology and Pedagogy -- Pt. II. Patrimonial, Social, and Pedagogical Anxieties around Pity -- 4. Schopenhauer and Nietzsche -- 5. The Solidarity Movement and the Dreyfus Affair -- 6. EnGendering Pity -- Pt. III. The Patrimony of Literary Pity in Fin-de-Siecle Fiction -- 7. Debating at the Goncourts' Grenier -- 8. Cosmopolitanism or Francite? -- 9. From Germinie to Germinal: Effects of Pity, Effective Pity -- 10. A Rhetoric of the Feminine: Paul Bourget, Octave Mirbeau, and Leon Bloy -- 11. Moving the Past: Marcel Proust and Pierre Loti -- 12. Conclusion.