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The Virtue of Sympathy: Magic, Philosophy, and Literature Seventeenth-Century England
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The Virtue of Sympathy: Magic, Philosophy, and Literature Seventeenth-Century England
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The Virtue of Sympathy: Magic, Philosophy, and Literature Seventeenth-Century England
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A revealing look at how the cultural meaning of sympathy shifted during the seventeenth century
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.
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.