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

ISBN-13: 9780300192032 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 432 str.

Seth Lobis

Opis

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.