The virtue of sympathy : magic, philosophy, and literature in seventeenth-century England
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The virtue of sympathy : magic, philosophy, and literature in seventeenth-century England
（Yale studies in English）
Yale University Press, c2015
- : hardback
Available at 7 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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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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