
The Virtue of Sympathy : Magic, Philosophy, and Literature in Seventeenth-Century England Hardback
by Seth Lobis
Part of the Yale Studies in English series
Hardback
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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.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:448 pages
- Publisher:Yale University Press
- Publication Date:06/02/2015
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- ISBN:9780300192032