Sympathy in Early Modern Literature and Culture

"This is the first comprehensive and interdisciplinary study of sympathy in the early modern period, providing an extensive and deeply researched examination of its development in Anglophone literature and culture"--

List of contents

Introduction: 'Solemn sympathy'; 1. 'A sympathy of affections': sympathy, love and friendship in Elizabethan prose fiction; 2. 'Compassion and mercie draw teares from the godlyfull often': the rhetoric of sympathy in the early modern sermon; 3. 'Grief best is pleased with grief's society': female complaint and the transmission of sympathy; 4. 'O, what a sympathy of woe is this': passionate sympathy in late Elizabethan drama; 5. 'Soveraignes have a sympathie with subjects': the politics of sympathy in Jacobean England; 6. 'As God loves sympathy, God loves symphony': sympathy at a distance in Caroline England Coda.

About the author

Richard Meek is Lecturer in English at the University of Hull. He is the author of Narrating the Visual in Shakespeare (2009) and co-editor of Shakespeare's Book: Essays in Reading, Writing and Reception (2008), The Renaissance of Emotion: Understanding Affect in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries (2015), and Ekphrastic Encounters: New Interdisciplinary Essays on Literature and the Visual Arts (2019).

Summary

This is the first comprehensive and interdisciplinary study of sympathy in the early modern period, providing an extensive and deeply researched examination of its development in Anglophone literature and culture.

Foreword

The first comprehensive and interdisciplinary study of sympathy in early modern Anglophone literature and culture.

Product details

• Authors: Richard Meek, Richard (University of Hull) Meek, Meek Richard
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2023
• EAN: 9781009280266
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0928026-6
• No. of pages: 298
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Europe, Literature & literary studies, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literature: history & criticism, 15th century, c 1400 to c 1499, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, Literature: history and criticism, Literary studies: poetry and poets, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Literary studies: c 1400 to c 1600