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""Working at the complex intersection of affect, aesthetics, and ethics, The Art of Pity is a remarkable contribution to our understanding of how early modern literature makes meaning. Learned and lucid, the book is a delight; St. Hilaire's deft analysis of pity in Sidney, Spenser, and Shakespeare generates key insights into the emotional and ethical dimensions of aesthetic experience--with implications that extend beyond the Renaissance and help us freshly see the value of literature today.""--Bradley J. Irish, associate professor of English at Arizona State University and author of The Rivalrous Renaissance: Envy and Jealousy in Early Modern English Literature ""St. Hilaire convincingly illuminates the consequence and legitimacy of emotions responsive to literature, delight and pity paramount among them, in shaping how we judge, think, and live, and the unparalleled nature of literary experience for awakening our ethical potential through affective and cognitive means. In this compelling account, the stakes are never higher than when we choose to enter a playhouse or immerse ourselves within the fictional universe of a poem. Seen aright, The Art of Pity shows imaginative literature is so much more than a flight of fancy.""--Russell M. Hillier, professor of English at Providence College, Rhode Island, and author of Milton's Messiah: The Son of God in the Works of John Milton

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Danielle A. St. Hilaire is the chair and associate professor of the English Department at Duquesne University. She is the author of Satan's Poetry: Fallenness and Poetic Tradition in Paradise Lost, as well as numerous articles in scholar journals and chapters in multiauthor volumes.

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