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The Virtue of Sympathy : Magic, Philosophy, and Literature in Seventeenth-Century England / Seth Lobis.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lobis, Seth, Author.
- Series:
- Yale studies in English.
- Yale Studies in English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Literature and society--England--History--17th century.
- Literature and society.
- Sympathy--England--History--17th century.
- Sympathy.
- Sympathy in literature.
- Social ethics--England--History--17th century.
- Social ethics.
- England--Social life and customs--17th century.
- England.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2015]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Toward a New History of Sympathy
- Sir Kenelm Digby and the Matter of Sympathy
- The "Self-Themes" of Margaret Cavendish and Thomas Hobbes
- Milton and the Link of Nature
- Paradise Lost and the Human Face of Sympathy
- "Moral Magick": Cambridge Platonism and the Third Earl of Shaftesbury
- The Future of Sympathy I: The Poetry of the World
- The Future of Sympathy II: Hume and the Afterlife of Shaftesburianism
- Coda: Hawthorne's Digby and Mary Shelley's Milton
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9780300210415
- 0300210418
- OCLC:
- 899158698
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