Eric Langley, Lecturer in Shakespeare, University College London
Eric Langley is a lecturer in Shakespeare at UCL having previously worked at Leeds, St Andrews, and Royal Holloway. Publishing academic writing on Shakespeare and period conceptions of interiority, his first monograph Narcissism And Suicide in Shakespeare and his Contemporaries was published by Oxford University Press in 2009, and he has published a number of scholarly articles on early-modern optics, eyesight, conceptions of disease, atomist thought, and Renaissance erotica. His first poetry collection, Raking Light, was published by Carcanet in 2017 and was nominated for the Felix Dennis award for best debut at that year's Forward Prizes.
Part One: Sympathy 1. Introducing Contagious Sympathies: Shakespeare at the Limits of Compassion 2. Communicating Sympathies: Shakespearean Anxieties of Influency Postscript. The Dialogue of One: Self-relation in Montaigne and Descartes Part Two: The Bittersweet 3. Shakespeare's Pharmacy: Bittersweet Sympathies/Sweet-bitter Antipathies 4. Plagued by Kindness: Othello, in Communication Part Three: Tenderness 5. The Sight of Others' Anguish: Shakespeare's Tender Sympathies 6. Self-contentation: In Communication and Incommunication Conclusion. Tender Embassies: Returned to Sender
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