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BL
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626766
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dltt
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Lobis, Seth
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| Title & Author
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The virtue of sympathy : : magic, philosophy, and literature in seventeenth-century England /\ Seth Lobis
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| Series Statement
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Yale studies in English
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x, 418 pages ;; 25 cm
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| ISBN
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9780300192032
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: 0300192037
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-406) and index
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| Contents
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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
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| Abstract
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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"--
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English literature-- Early modern, 1500-1700-- History and criticism
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Literature and society-- England-- History-- 17th century
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Sympathy-- England-- History-- 17th century
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Sympathy in literature
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Social ethics-- England-- History-- 17th century
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England, Social life and customs, 17th century
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| Dewey Classification
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820.9/004
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PR438.S63L63 2015
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