The Politics Of Melancholy From Spenser To Milton
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The Politics of Melancholy from Spenser to Milton
Author | : Adam Kitzes |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 2017-09-25 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781135503079 |
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During the so-called Age of Melancholy, many writers invoked both traditional and new conceptualizations of the disease in order to account for various types of social turbulence, ranging from discontent and factionalism to civil war. Writing about melancholy became a way to explore both the causes and preventions of political disorder, on both specific and abstract levels. Thus, at one and the same moment, a writer could write about melancholy to discuss specific and ongoing political crises and to explore more generally the principles which generate political conflicts in the first place. In the course of developing a traditional discourse of melancholy of its own, English writers appropriated representations of the disease - often ineffectively - in order to account for the political turbulence during the civil war and Interregnum periods
Typology and Iconography in Donne Herbert and Milton
Author | : Reuben Sánchez |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 275 |
Release | : 2014-05-14 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9781137397805 |
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This book analyzes the iconographic traditions of Jeremiah and of melancholy to show how Donne, Herbert, and Milton each fashions himself after the icons presented in Rembrandt's Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem , Sluter's sculpture of Jeremiah in the Well of Moses, and Michelangelo's fresco of Jeremiah in the Sistine Chapel.
Shakespearean Melancholy
Author | : J.F. Bernard |
Publsiher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2018-07-17 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781474417341 |
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A new edition of the bestselling textbook for Scottish teacher training courses.
The Cultural Politics of Blood 1500 1900
Author | : Kimberly Anne Coles,Ralph Bauer,Zita Nunes,Carla L. Peterson |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 2015-01-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781137338211 |
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The essays of this collection explore how ideas about 'blood' in science and literature have supported, at various points in history and in various places in the circum-Atlantic world, fantasies of human embodiment and human difference that serve to naturalize existing hierarchies.
Robert Burton and the Transformative Powers of Melancholy
Author | : Stephanie Shirilan |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2016-03-03 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781317062264 |
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Few English books are as widely known, underread, and underappreciated as Robert Burton’s The Anatomy of Melancholy. Stephanie Shirilan laments that modern scholars often treat the Anatomy as an unmediated repository of early modern views on melancholy, overlooking the fact that Burton is writing a cento - an ancient form of satire that quotes and misquotes authoritative texts in often subversive ways - and that his express intent in so doing is to offer his readers literary therapy for melancholy. This book explores the ways in which the Anatomy dispenses both direct physic and more systemic medicine by encouraging readers to think of melancholy as a privileged mental and spiritual acuity that requires cultivation and management rather than cure. Refuting the prevailing historiography of anxious early modern embodiment that cites Burton as a key witness, Shirilan submits that the Anatomy rejects contemporary Neostoic and Puritan approaches to melancholy. She reads Burton’s erraticism, opacity, and theatricality as modes of resistance against demands for constancy, transparency, and plainness in the popular literature of spiritual and moral hygiene of his day. She shows how Burton draws on rhetorical, theological, and philosophical traditions that privilege the transformative powers of the imagination in order to celebrate melancholic impressionability for its capacity to inspire and engender empathy, charity, and faith.
The Encyclopedia of English Renaissance Literature 3 Volume Set
Author | : Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr.,Alan Stewart,Rebecca Lemon,Nicholas McDowell,Jennifer Richards |
Publsiher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 1335 |
Release | : 2012-01-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781405194495 |
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Featuring entries composed by leading international scholars, The Encyclopedia of English Renaissance Literature presents comprehensive coverage of all aspects of English literature produced from the early 16th to the mid 17th centuries. Comprises over 400 entries ranging from 1000 to 5000 words written by leading international scholars Arranged in A-Z format across three fully indexed and cross-referenced volumes Provides coverage of canonical authors and their works, as well as a variety of previously under-considered areas, including women writers, broadside ballads, commonplace books, and other popular literary forms Biographical material on authors is presented in the context of cutting-edge critical discussion of literary works. Represents the most comprehensive resource available for those working in English Renaissance literary studies Also available online as part of the Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Literature, providing 24/7 access and powerful searching, browsing and cross-referencing capabilities
The Routledge History of Madness and Mental Health
Author | : Greg Eghigian |
Publsiher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 405 |
Release | : 2017-04-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781351784399 |
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Mad people's historical anthologies and republished writings -- Mad people's perspectives in institutional histories -- Mad people's historical biographies -- Mad people's activist histories -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 16: Dementia: confusion at the borderlands of aging and madness -- Dementia in the distant past -- Framing dementia as a brain disease in modern German psychiatry -- Framing dementia as a problem in the adjustment to aging in mid-century American psychodynamic psychiatry -- Framing dementia as dread disease and major public health crisis in an aging world -- Conclusion: the ongoing entanglement of dementia and aging -- Notes -- PART VI: Maladies, disorders, and treatments -- Chapter 17: Passions and moods -- Emotions in history -- Grand narratives and overarching themes -- Specific stories and critical contexts -- Conclusion and areas for further scholarship -- Notes -- Chapter 18: Psychosis -- Madness -- Psychosis is a special thing -- If "psychotic" means "psychosis-like," then what, pray tell, is psychosis like? -- Schizophrenia -- Notes -- Chapter 19: Somatic treatments -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 20: Psychotherapy in society: historical reflections -- Notes -- Chapter 21: The antidepressant era revisited: towards differentiation and patient-empowerment in diagnosis and treatment -- Psychopharmacology and historiography -- Towards a new chemistry of the mind -- Mother's little helpers -- Appetite for new chemical wonders for the mind -- Towards differentiation and patient empowerment in the era of genomics -- Notes -- Index
A Man Very Well Studyed
Author | : Katherine Murphy,Richard Todd |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 335 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9789004171732 |
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This volume of essays on Thomas Browne aims to set the man and his works in new contexts. Drawing on new research into his reading, readers, biography, manuscripts, and politics, a new picture of Browne and his writing emerges, clarifying his relationship to seventeenth-century English and European culture.