The literature of melancholia : early modern to postmodern

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The literature of melancholia : early modern to postmodern

edited by Martin Middeke and Christina Wald

Palgrave Macmillan, 2011

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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  • Melancholia as a sense of loss : an introduction / Martin Middeke and Christina Wald
  • Yet once more : melancholia and amnesia in Milton's Lycidas / Tobias Döring
  • Male pregnancies, virgin births, monsters of the mind : early modern melancholia and (cross-)gendered constructions of creativity / Anne-Julia Zwierlein
  • Mourning and melancholia in England and its transatlantic colonies : examples of seventeenth-century female appropriations / Gabriele Rippl
  • "To pictur'd regions and imagin'd worlds" : female melancholic writing and the poems of Mary Leapor / Sabine Blackmore
  • "The dark bottomless abyss, that lies under our feet, had yawned open" : the rescision of the male melancholic genius in Carlyle's Sartor Resartus / Felix Sprang
  • "They came, they cut away my tallest pines" : Tennyson and the melancholy of modernity / Andrew Gibson
  • The melancholy of history : the French Revolution and European historiography / Peter Fritzsche
  • Commercializing melancholy : the National Trust / Christoph Ehland and Stephan Kohl
  • Melancholia in the South Pacific : the strange case of Robert Louis Stevenson's travel writing / Kirsten Sandrock
  • The secret of the father in the colonial secret : Rosa Praed's Weird Melancholy / Jennifer Rutherford
  • Modernist melancholia and time : the synchronicity of the non-synchronic in Freud, Tylor and Conrad / Anne Enderwitz
  • The closed circle of Britain's postcolonial melancholia / Paul Gilroy
  • Working at the seams : Howard Barker's Tragic Trauerspiel / Elizabeth Sakellaridou
  • Melancholia and mourning animals / Juliana Schiesari
  • Melancholic consolation? : J. M. Coetzee, irony, and the aesthetics of the sublime / Johan Geertsema
  • The novel after melancholia : on Tom McCarthy's Remainder and David Mitchell's Ghostwritten / Pieter Vermeulen

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