Sympathy in Early Modern Literature and Culture
Autor Richard Meeken Limba Engleză Hardback – 12 apr 2023
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781009280266
ISBN-10: 1009280260
Pagini: 298
Dimensiuni: 160 x 236 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.58 kg
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Locul publicării:Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1009280260
Pagini: 298
Dimensiuni: 160 x 236 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.58 kg
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Locul publicării:Cambridge, United Kingdom
Cuprins
Introduction: 'Solemn sympathy'; 1. 'A sympathy of affections': sympathy, love and friendship in Elizabethan prose fiction; 2. 'Compassion and mercie draw teares from the godlyfull often': the rhetoric of sympathy in the early modern sermon; 3. 'Grief best is pleased with grief's society': female complaint and the transmission of sympathy; 4. 'O, what a sympathy of woe is this': passionate sympathy in late Elizabethan drama; 5. 'Soveraignes have a sympathie with subjects': the politics of sympathy in Jacobean England; 6. 'As God loves sympathy, God loves symphony': sympathy at a distance in Caroline England Coda.
Recenzii
'A wonderfully perceptive book, written with great empathy. Meek is an astute reader of early modern literature, but his book also attends carefully to the ethical and spiritual possibilities of compassion in the wider world. A brilliant addition to scholarship on the history of emotion.' Katharine A. Craik, Oxford Brookes University
'Lucid, learned, nimble, and persuasive, Sympathy in Early Modern Literature and Culture is a must-read for anyone interested in the history of emotions in early modern England. In contrast to the commonplace that widespread fascination with what we might now call empathy begins in the eighteenth century, Meek shows how it emerges in the sixteenth century, presaging its importance for later thinkers such as Adam Smith and David Hume. In contrast to recent claims that Shakespeare and his contemporaries understood emotions primarily as effects of physical humours, Meek reveals their profound sense of the human mind as immaterial and intersubjective.' Patrick Gray, Durham University
'Sympathy is a key emotion in affect studies and the history of feeling because its changing meanings reveal not just how this particular emotion was experienced and understood, but also how writers have considered the movement of affect more generally from one individual to others. Richard Meek's interdisciplinary analysis of an impressive range of early modern English texts (both literary and non-literary, and both canonical and under-examined) is therefore crucially relevant to historical and contemporary emotion studies. Tracing the semantic shifts in the word 'sympathy' and its imaginative and metaphorical use in the period – from describing a magical affinity or transmission between physical objects and substances in texts of natural philosophy, for instance, to its transpositions denoting compassion or pity in religious texts, to its evaluation as a politically potent and sometimes failed 'fellow-feeling' in dramatic works including King Lear, Meek unravels any simple historical understanding of this emotion's emergence in the eighteenth century. He insists instead that sympathy's widening use and accretion of meanings in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries reveals a growing understanding of this fundamental emotion as intersubjective, as well as both mimetic and willed.' Cora Fox, Arizona State University
'Lucid, learned, nimble, and persuasive, Sympathy in Early Modern Literature and Culture is a must-read for anyone interested in the history of emotions in early modern England. In contrast to the commonplace that widespread fascination with what we might now call empathy begins in the eighteenth century, Meek shows how it emerges in the sixteenth century, presaging its importance for later thinkers such as Adam Smith and David Hume. In contrast to recent claims that Shakespeare and his contemporaries understood emotions primarily as effects of physical humours, Meek reveals their profound sense of the human mind as immaterial and intersubjective.' Patrick Gray, Durham University
'Sympathy is a key emotion in affect studies and the history of feeling because its changing meanings reveal not just how this particular emotion was experienced and understood, but also how writers have considered the movement of affect more generally from one individual to others. Richard Meek's interdisciplinary analysis of an impressive range of early modern English texts (both literary and non-literary, and both canonical and under-examined) is therefore crucially relevant to historical and contemporary emotion studies. Tracing the semantic shifts in the word 'sympathy' and its imaginative and metaphorical use in the period – from describing a magical affinity or transmission between physical objects and substances in texts of natural philosophy, for instance, to its transpositions denoting compassion or pity in religious texts, to its evaluation as a politically potent and sometimes failed 'fellow-feeling' in dramatic works including King Lear, Meek unravels any simple historical understanding of this emotion's emergence in the eighteenth century. He insists instead that sympathy's widening use and accretion of meanings in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries reveals a growing understanding of this fundamental emotion as intersubjective, as well as both mimetic and willed.' Cora Fox, Arizona State University
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The first comprehensive and interdisciplinary study of sympathy in early modern Anglophone literature and culture.