Matthew Bell

Melancholia

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A history of melancholy and its significance in Western history and culture.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 340g
• ISBN-13: 9781107641792
• ISBN-10: 1107641799
• Artikelnr.: 45571234

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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.