Sympathy And Antipathy In King Lear

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Foreword V
3. Table Of Contents VII
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. Origins Of Sympathy In Ancient Natural Philosophy And Theolog
6. Eros Und Sympathie Bei Plotin 19
7. Sympathie. Zum Ursprung Der Modernen Solidaritätsidee 39
8. From Ordo Rerum To Compassio: Augustine’S Philosophical Justification Of A Christian Theory Of Society 51
9. 2. The Richness Of Sympathy In Early Modernity
10. Adrift In The Ocean Of Sympathy: Shakespeare’S Poetic Economy Of Salvation In The Comedy Of Errors 73
11. Sympathy And Antipathy In King Lear 89
12. From Sympathy To Empathy: Donne And Milton 109
13. Sympathy, Friendship, And The Effects Of Allegory In Seventeenth-Century Platonist Writing 125
14. 3. Paradigm Lost And Regained: Sympathy In The Eighteenth-Century
15. Rubbing Our Corners: Sympathy And Social Harmony In Smith And Shaftesbury 147
16. »A Fellow-Feeling Makes One Wond’Rous Kind«: Spectatorial And Narrative Sympathy In Adam Smith, Lord Kames And Oliver Goldsmith 177
17. Godwin’S Political Justice And Shaftesbury’S Moral Realism: Caleb Williams And »The Moralists« Between The Rhetorics And Poetics Of Affection 195
18. »Social Joy«: The Politics Of Sympathy, Universal Benevolence, And British Romanticism In The 1790S 223
19. »The Source Of All Our Virtues«: Sympathy, Physiology And Politics In Erasmus Darwin’S Work 239
20. The Negative Instance Of Sympathy 253
21. Sympathy And The Poetics Of The Epitaph In The Long Eighteenth Century 267
22. Index Of Names 285