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

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Author / Creator:	Lobis, Seth.
Imprint:	New Haven [Connecticut] : Yale University Press, [2014]
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Series:	Yale Studies in English Yale studies in English.
Subject:	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. English literature -- Early modern. Literature and society. Manners and customs. Social ethics. Sympathy. Sympathy in literature. England -- Social life and customs -- 17th century. England. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11675732

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ISBN:	9780300210415 0300210418 9780300192032 0300192037
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Summary:	"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"--
Other form:	Print version: Lobis, Seth. Virtue of sympathy 9780300192032

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