A User's Guide to Melancholy takes Robert Burton's encyclopaedic masterpiece The Anatomy of Melancholy as a guide to melancholy, from cause to cure. Through case studies, it explores a Renaissance disease of the mind that inclined its sufferers towards sadness and fear but also delusion, despair, hilarity, and artistic creativity.
A User's Guide to Melancholy takes Robert Burton's encyclopaedic masterpiece The Anatomy of Melancholy as a guide to melancholy, from cause to cure. Through case studies, it explores a Renaissance disease of the mind that inclined its sufferers towards sadness and fear but also delusion, despair, hilarity, and artistic creativity.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Mary Ann Lund is Associate Professor in Renaissance English Literature at the University of Leicester. She is the author of Melancholy, Medicine, and Religion in Early Modern England: Reading 'The Anatomy of Melancholy' (Cambridge University Press, 2010) which was shortlisted for the CCUE Book Prize. She has contributed to the BBC Radio 4 series: In Our Time on The Anatomy of Melancholy (2011), The Glass Delusion (2015), and A History of Delusions (2018). She was an AHRC Leadership Fellow (2015-17) and edited The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne: Vol. 12 (2018).
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Introduction Causes: 1. Sorrow and fear 2. Body and mind 3. The supernatural Symptoms: 4. Delusions 5. Love and sex 6. Despair Cures: 7. The non-naturals 8. Medicine and surgery 9. Lifting the spirits Robert Burton, 'The Author's Abstract of Melancholy' Conclusion: The Two Faces of Melancholy.
Introduction Causes: 1. Sorrow and fear 2. Body and mind 3. The supernatural Symptoms: 4. Delusions 5. Love and sex 6. Despair Cures: 7. The non-naturals 8. Medicine and surgery 9. Lifting the spirits Robert Burton, 'The Author's Abstract of Melancholy' Conclusion: The Two Faces of Melancholy.
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