Title: Virtue of Sympathy
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"--
Subjects: English literature, history and criticism, early modern, 1500-1700, Literature and society, Sympathy, Social ethics, Great britain, history, English literature, History and criticism, History, Sympathy in literature, Social life and customs, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, France, civilization, French literature, history and criticism, Philosophy, french, England, social life and customs, LITERARY CRITICISM, European, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Early modern, Manners and customs