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Virtue of Sympathy: Magic, Philosophy, and Literature in Seventeenth-Century England

Virtue of Sympathy: Magic, Philosophy, and Literature in Seventeenth-Century England

Hardcover

Series: Yale Studies in English

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0300192037
ISBN13: 9780300192032
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: Dec 9 2014
Pages: 432
Weight: 1.58
Height: 1.20 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
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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