Virtue of Sympathy
Subtitle: Magic, Philosophy, and Literature in Seventeenth-Century England
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9780300192032
Subjects: English literature, history and criticism, early modern, 1500-1700; Literature and society; Sympathy; Social ethics; Great britain, history
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"--