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Virtue of Sympathy
Magic, Philosophy, and Literature in Seventeenth-Century England
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.
