Sympathy in Early Modern Literature and Culture

by Richard Meek

This is the first comprehensive study of sympathy in the early modern period, providing a deeply researched and interdisciplinary examination of its development in Anglophone literature and culture. It argues that the term sympathy was used to refer to an active and imaginative sharing of affect considerably earlier than previous critical and historical accounts have suggested. Investigating a wide range of texts and genres, including prose fiction,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1009280260
• ISBN13: 9781009280266
• Release Date: April 2023
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 298 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"