THE POETICS OF MELANCHOLY IN EARLY MODERN ENGLAND by Douglas Trevor ( 9780521834698 )

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THE POETICS OF MELANCHOLY IN EARLY MODERN ENGLAND

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ISBN 10:

0521834694

ISBN 13:

9780521834698

Publisher:

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

30 September, 2004

Series:

Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature & Culture v. 48

Pages:

268

Description:

This book explores how attitudes toward, and explanations of, human emotions change in England during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century.

Synopsis:

The Poetics of Melancholy in Early Modern England explores how attitudes toward, and explanations of, human emotions change in England during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century. Typically categorized as 'literary' writers Edmund Spenser, John Donne, Robert Burton and John Milton were all active in the period's reappraisal of the single emotion that, due to their efforts, would become the passion most associated with the writing life: melancholy. By emphasising the shared concerns of the 'non-literary' and 'literary' texts produced by these figures, Douglas Trevor asserts that quintessentially 'scholarly' practices such as glossing texts and appending sidenotes shape the methods by which these same writers come to analyse their own moods. He also examines early modern medical texts, dramaturgical representations of learned depressives such as Shakespeare's Hamlet, and the opposition to materialistic accounts of the passions voiced by Neoplatonists such as Edmund Spenser.

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9 b/w illus.

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Cambridge University Press

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