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, 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"--

Summary

A revealing look at how the cultural meaning of sympathy shifted during the seventeenth century

Product details

• Authors: Seth Lobis, Lobis Seth
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.01.2015
• EAN: 9780300192032
• ISBN: 978-0-300-19203-2
• No. of pages: 432
• Series: Yale Studies in English; Yale Studies in English
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; History of Ideas, English, HISTORY / Social History, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800