Mary Ann Lund

Melancholy, Medicine and Religion in Early Modern England

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 500g
• ISBN-13: 9780521190503
• ISBN-10: 0521190509
• Artikelnr.: 28517456

Autorenporträt

Mary Ann Lund is Lecturer in Renaissance Literature at the University of Leicester.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Zisca's drum: reading and cure
1. Imagining readings
2. The cure of despair: reading the end of The Anatomy of Melancholy
3. Printed therapeutics: The Anatomy of Melancholy and early modern medical writing
4. The whole physician
5. Speaking out of experience
6. The structure of melancholy: from cause to cure
Conclusion.