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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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Main Author:	Lobis, Seth
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New Haven, Connecticut : Yale University Press, [2015]
Series:	Yale studies in English.
Subjects:	English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism. Literature and society > England > History > 17th century. Sympathy > England > History > 17th century. Sympathy in literature. Social ethics > England > History > 17th century. England > Social life and customs > 17th century. LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.

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