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02932aam a2200373 i 4500 001 EDE76474166311EA9B100A4E97128E48 003 SILO 005 20191204010031 008 180829s2018 enk b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2018939615 020 $a 0198821840 020 $a 9780198821847 035 $a (OCoLC)1063665917 040 $a UKMGB $b eng $e rda $c UKMGB $d TXA $d OCLCF $d VA@ $d XII $d OCLCQ $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 4 $a PR3062 L36 2018 100 1 $a Langley, Eric Francis $e author. 245 10 $a Shakespeare's contagious sympathies : $b ill communications / $c Eric Langley. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a Oxford : $b Oxford University Press, $c 2018. 300 $a x, 318 pages ; $c 24 cm 520 $a "Understanding the early-modern subject to be constituted, as Shakespeare's Ulysses explains, by its communications with others, this study considers what happens when these conceptions of compassionate communication and sympathetic exchange are comprehensively undermined by period anxieties concerning contagion and the transmission of disease. Allowing that 'no man is ... any thing' until he has 'communicate[d] his parts to others', can these formative communications still be risked in a world preoccupied by communicable sickness, where every contact risks contraction, where every touch could be the touch of plague, where kind interaction could facilitate cruel infection, and where to commiserate is to risk 'miserable dependence'? Counting the cost of compassion, this study of Shakespeare's plays and poetry analyses how medical explanations of disease impact upon philosophical conceptions and literary depictions of his characters who find themselves precariously implicated within a world of ill communications. It examines the influence of scientific thought upon the history of the subject, and explores how Shakespeare--alive to both the importance and dangers of sympathetic communication--articulates an increasing sense of both the pragmatic benefits of monadic thought, emotional isolation, and subjective quarantine, while offering his account of the considerable loss involved when we lose faith in vulnerable, tender, and open existence"--Publisher's website. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-309) and index. 600 10 $a Shakespeare, William, $d 1564-1616 $x Criticism and interpretation. 600 10 $a Shakespeare, William, $d 1564-1616 $x Medicine. $x Medicine. 600 10 $a Shakespeare, William, $d 1564-1616 $x Communication. $x Communication. 650 0 $a English drama $y Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Diseases in literature. 650 0 $a Medicine in literature. 600 17 $a Shakespeare, William, $d 1564-1616. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00029048 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20230907010947.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=EDE76474166311EA9B100A4E97128E48 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search