Shakespeare's Contagious Sympathies

by Eric Langley

Understanding the early-modern subject to be constituted, as Shakespeare's Ulysses explains, by its communications with others, this study considers what happens when these conceptions of compassionate communication and sympathetic exchange are comprehensively undermined by period anxieties concerning contagion and the transmission of disease. Allowing that 'no man is . . . any thing' until he has 'communicate d] his parts to others', can these formative...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198821840
• ISBN13: 9780198821847
• Release Date: December 2018
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 334 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"