The virtue of sympathy : magic, philosophy, and literature in seventeenth-century England /
Beginning with an analysis of Shakespeare's The Tempest and building to a new reading of Milton's Paradise Lost, Seth Lobis charts a profound change in the cultural meaning of sympathy during the seventeenth century. Having long referred to magical affinities in the universe, sympathy was...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New Haven, Connecticut :
Yale University Press,
[2015]
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| Series: | Yale studies in English.
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| Summary: | Beginning with an analysis of Shakespeare's The Tempest and building to a new reading of Milton's Paradise Lost, Seth Lobis charts a profound change in the cultural meaning of sympathy during the seventeenth century. Having long referred to magical affinities in the universe, sympathy was increasingly understood to be a force of connection between people. By examining sympathy in literary and philosophical writing of the period, Lobis illuminates an extraordinary shift in human understanding. |
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| Physical Description: | x, 418 pages ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780300192032 (hardback) 0300192037 (hardback) |