Virtue of Sympathy

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"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"--

subjects: English literature, history and criticism, early modern, 1500-1700,  Literature and society,  Sympathy,  Social ethics,  Great britain, history,  English literature,  History and criticism,  History,  Sympathy in literature,  Social life and customs,  LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh,  France, civilization,  French literature, history and criticism,  Philosophy, french,  England, social life and customs,  LITERARY CRITICISM,  European,  English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh,  Early modern,  Manners and customs