Virtue of Sympathy

Seth Lobis

earliest edition we have, 2015 Yale University Press, 2015 429 pages

"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 wr...

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Virtue of Sympathy edition · 2015 · Yale University Press · 429 pages · 9781322564807
Virtue of Sympathy edition · 2015 · Yale University Press · 432 pages · 9780300210415
Virtue of Sympathy edition · 2015 · Yale University Press · 432 pages · 9780300192032

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