A unique explanation of melancholia, charting its fascinating history and demonstrating how it flourished because of the West's peculiar fascination with self-consciousness. This book will appeal to readers interested in the cultural history of the West, as well as those with an interest in mental illness.
A unique explanation of melancholia, charting its fascinating history and demonstrating how it flourished because of the West's peculiar fascination with self-consciousness. This book will appeal to readers interested in the cultural history of the West, as well as those with an interest in mental illness.
Matthew Bell is Professor of German and Comparative Literature at King's College London. His main areas of research are eighteenth-century literature and thought, and the history of the human sciences. He is the author of The German Tradition of Psychology in Literature and Thought, 1700¿1840 (Cambridge, 2005).
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Introduction 1. Naming a disease 2. What's wrong with me? 3. Melancholy men, depressed women? 4. The Western malady 5. The telescope of truth Conclusion.
Introduction 1. Naming a disease 2. What's wrong with me? 3. Melancholy men, depressed women? 4. The Western malady 5. The telescope of truth Conclusion.
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