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The virtue of sympathy : magic, philosophy, and literature in seventeenth-century England / Seth Lobis.

"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,...

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Main Author: Lobis, Seth (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2015]
Series:Yale studies in English.
Subjects:
English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism.
Literature and society > England > History > 17th century.
Sympathy > England > History > 17th century.
Sympathy in literature.
Social ethics > England > History > 17th century.
England > Social life and customs > 17th century.
English literature > Early modern.
Literature and society.
Manners and customs.
Social ethics.
Sympathy.
England.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Table of 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.

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