Title: The Virtue of Sympathy: Magic, Philosophy, and Literature in Seventeenth-Century England
Abstract: 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.
Publication Year: 2015
Publication Date: 2015-01-06
Language: en
Type: book
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