Sympathy in Early Modern Literature and Culture. Meek, Meek, 9781009280242**

Name: Sympathy in Early Modern Literature and Culture. Meek, Meek, 9781009280242**
Brand: Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press

Sympathy in Early Modern Literature and CultureAuthor(s): Richard Meek\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781009280242, 978-1009280242\nSynopsis\nThis 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, sermons, poetic complaint, drama, political tracts, and scientific treatises, Richard Meek demonstrates the ways in which sympathy in the period is bound up with larger debates about society, religion, and identity. He also reveals the extent to which early modern emotions were not simply humoral or grounded i.