Melancholy Experience in Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century: Before Depression, 1660-1800

by Allan Ingram, Clark Lawlor, Stuart Sim, et al.

Book Overview

Acknowledgements Author Biographies Introduction: Depression Before Depression; A.Ingram & S.Sim Fashionable Melancholy; C.Lawlor Philosophical Melancholy; R.Terry 'Strange contrarys': Figures of Melancholy in Eighteenth-Century Poetry; J.Baker Despair, Melancholy and the Novel; S.Sim Melancholy, Medicine, Mad Moon and Marriage: Autobiographical Expressions of Depression; L.Wetherall-Dickson Deciphering Difference: A Study in Medical Literacy; A.Ingram...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 134931949X
• ISBN13: 9781349319497
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"