Melancholy experience in literature of the long eighteenth century : before depression, 1660-1800
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Melancholy experience in literature of the long eighteenth century : before depression, 1660-1800
Palgrave Macmillan, 2011
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Arising from a research project on depression in the eighteenth century, this book discusses the experience of depressive states both in terms of existing modes of thought and expression, and of attempts to describe and live with suffering. It also asks what present-day society can learn about depression from the eighteenth-century experience.
Table of Contents
- 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 Bibliography Index
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