Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: Toward a New History of Sympathy 1
5. Sir Kenelm Digby and the Matter of Sympathy 36
6. The “Self-Themes” of Margaret Cavendish and Thomas Hobbes 69
7. Milton and the Link of Nature 110
8. Paradise Lost and the Human Face of Sympathy 156
9. “Moral Magick”: Cambridge Platonism and the Third Earl of Shaftesbury 198
10. The Future of Sympathy I: The Poetry of the World 256
11. The Future of Sympathy II: Hume and the Afterlife of Shaftesburianism 289
12. Coda: Hawthorne’s Digby and Mary Shelley’s Milton 313
13. Notes 327
14. Bibliography 367
15. Index 407