Overview
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.
- | Author: Seth Lobis
- | Publisher: Yale University Press
- | Publication Date: Dec 09, 2014
- | Number of Pages: 432 pages
- | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
- | ISBN-10: 0300192037
- | ISBN-13: 9780300192032
