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The Virtue of Sympathy: Magic, Philosophy, and Literature in Seventeenth-Century England

By Seth Lobis

Book information

Publisher
Yale University Press
Year
2015
ISBN
0300192037, 9780300192032
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1614652 bytes)
Series
Yale Studies in English
Pages
432\429
Scanned
yes
Time added
2015-09-02 20:42:08
British Irish European Regional Cultural History C

Description

Beginning with an analysis of Shakespeare’s The Tempest and building to a new reading of Milton’s Paradise Lost, author 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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