Some Anatomies Of Melancholy
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Some Anatomies of Melancholy
Author | : Robert Burton |
Publsiher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 116 |
Release | : 2008-08-07 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9780141963334 |
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Not simply an investigation into melancholy, these unique essays form part of a panoramic celebration of human behaviour from the time of the ancients to the Renaissance. God, devils, old age, diet, drunkenness, love and beauty are each given equal consideration in this all-encompassing examination of the human condition. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves – and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives – and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are.
The Anatomy of Melancholy
Author | : Robert Burton |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 620 |
Release | : 1836 |
Genre | : Melancholy |
ISBN | : UVA:X001234702 |
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The Anatomy of Melancholy
Author | : Robert Burton |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 530 |
Release | : 1893 |
Genre | : Melancholy |
ISBN | : UVA:X001608623 |
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The Anatomy of Melancholy
Author | : Robert Burton |
Publsiher | : Penguin Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023-07-06 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 0141192283 |
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A new Penguin Classics edition of Burton's masterpiece - ostensibly a guidebook to melancholia or depression, in reality an all-encompassing examination of the human condition. The Anatomy of Melancholy is the vast and only work by Robert Burton, the 17th-century English priest and scholar. It 'opens and cuts up' the condition of melancholy, or depression as we know it today, and in doing so explores a dizzying range of additional topics, including goblins, beauty, the geography of America, digestion, the passions, alcohol and kissing. Burton believed that reading was a cure for melancholy, and so the book itself - one of the most unique and uncategorisable works of all time - can be seen as a tonic for the very condition it describes.
The Anatomy of Melancholy
Author | : Robert Burton |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 526 |
Release | : 1862 |
Genre | : Melancholy |
ISBN | : UIUC:30112073247980 |
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Romantic Medicine and the Gothic Imagination
Author | : Laura R. Kremmel |
Publsiher | : University of Wales Press |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2022-04-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781786838506 |
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This book debates a crossover between the Gothic and the medical imagination in the Romantic period. It explores the gore and uncertainty typical of medical experimentation, and expands the possibilities of medical theories in a speculative space by a focus on Gothic novels, short stories, poetry, drama and chapbooks. By comparing the Gothic’s collection of unsavoury tropes to morbid anatomy’s collection of diseased organs, the author argues that the Gothic’s prioritisation of fear and gore gives it access to nonnormative bodies, reallocating medical and narrative agency to bodies considered otherwise powerless. Each chapter pairs a trope with a critical medical debate, granting silenced bodies power over their own narratives: the reanimated corpse confronts fears about vitalism; the skeleton exposes fears about pain; the unreliable corpse feeds on fears of dissection; the devil redirects fears about disability; the dangerous narrative manipulates fears of contagion and vaccination.
Sanity in Bedlam
Author | : Lawrence A. Babb |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 2012-07-01 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 1258446243 |
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A Collection of Familiar Quotations
Author | : John Bartlett |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 660 |
Release | : 1856 |
Genre | : Quotations |
ISBN | : HARVARD:32044021235585 |
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