Richard Meek

Sympathy in Early Modern Literature and Culture

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"This is the first comprehensive and interdisciplinary study of sympathy in the early modern period, providing an extensive and deeply researched examination of its development in Anglophone literature and culture"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: European Community
• Seitenzahl: 298
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. April 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 576g
• ISBN-13: 9781009280266
• ISBN-10: 1009280260
• Artikelnr.: 66127020

Autorenporträt

Richard Meek is Lecturer in English at the University of Hull. He is the author of Narrating the Visual in Shakespeare (2009) and co-editor of Shakespeare's Book: Essays in Reading, Writing and Reception (2008), The Renaissance of Emotion: Understanding Affect in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries (2015), and Ekphrastic Encounters: New Interdisciplinary Essays on Literature and the Visual Arts (2019).

Inhaltsangabe

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.