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The literature of melancholia Early modern to postmodern /

This collection analyzes philosophical, psycho-analytic and aesthetic contexts of the discourse of melancholia in British and postcolonial literature and culture and seeks to trace the multi-faceted phenomenon of melancholia from the early modern period to the present. Texts discussed range from Sha...

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Group Author: Middeke, Martin; Wald, Christina
Published:
Literature type: Electronic Software eBook
Language: English
Subjects:
English literature > History and criticism
Melancholy in literature
Literary studies: general > English
Literature
Online Access: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230336988
Summary: This collection analyzes philosophical, psycho-analytic and aesthetic contexts of the discourse of melancholia in British and postcolonial literature and culture and seeks to trace the multi-faceted phenomenon of melancholia from the early modern period to the present. Texts discussed range from Shakespeare and Milton to Coetzee and Barker.
'This book is an ambitious engagement with a major topic of psychological and cultural importance. Its aims are wide-ranging, covering key writers and topics between the early modern period and our own time. Using often sophisticated theoretical approaches, the contributors have important arguments to make both in terms of the historical analysis of melancholia and of melancholic texts and tendencies, and of the continuity between historical figures and objects and such present day preoccupations as depression, loss and nostalgia. The result is a rich mix of approaches and a convincingly nua
Item Description: Electronic book text.
Epublication based on: 9780230293724, 2011.
Carrier Form: 288 p.
ISBN: 9780230293724
9780230336988 :
0230336981 :
CLC: I561.06
Contents: List of Illustrations Acknowledgements List of Contributors Melancholia as a Sense of Loss: An Introduction-- M.Middeke & C.Wald PART I: THE MELANCHOLIC TRADITION, CREATIVITY, AND GENDER: CARVING AUTHORIAL POSITIONS FROM THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD TO THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY Yet IOnce More: Melancholia and Amnesia in Milton's Lycidas-- T.Doring Male Pregnancies, Virgin Births, Monsters of the Mind: Early Modern Melancholia and (Cross-)Gendered Constructions of Creativity-- A-J Zwierlein Mourning and Melancholia in England and Its Transatlantic Colonies: Examples of Seventeenth-Century Female Appr

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