The virtue of sympathy : magic, philosophy, and literature in seventeenth-century England

• Tác giả: Seth Lobis
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-0300192032
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 820.9004 English and Old English (Anglo-Saxon) literatures
• Thông tin xuất bản: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2015
• Mô tả vật lý: x, 418 pages ; , 25 cm.
• Bộ sưu tập: Văn học
• ID: 157095
• Chủ đề: 1. English literature--History and criticism--Early modern, 1500-1700; 2. Literature and society--History--17th century--England; 3. Social ethics--History--17th century--England; 4. Sympathy--History--17th century--England; 5. Sympathy in literature; 6. LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-406) and index.

Tóm tắt

"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"-- Provided by publisher.