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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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.

Table of 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.Doering 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 Appropriations
  • G.Rippl 'To Pictur'd Regions and Imagin'd Worlds': Female Melancholic Writing and the Poems of Mary Leapor
  • S.Blackmore PART II: NATURE, HISTORY AND NOSTALGIA: THE MELANCHOLIA OF ROMANTICISM AND BEYOND 'The Dark Bottomless Abyss, that Lies Under Our Feet, had Yawned Open': The Rescission of the Male Melancholic Genius in Carlyle's Sartor Resartus
  • F.Sprang 'They Came, they Cut Away my Tallest Pines': Tennyson and the Melancholy of Modernity
  • A.Gibson The Melancholy of History: The French Revolution and European Historiography
  • P.Fritzsche Commercialising Melancholy: The National Trust
  • C.Ehland & S.Kohl PART III: MELANCHOLIA AND (POST-)COLONIALISM: FROM THE NINETEENTH TO THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY Melancholia in the South Pacific: The Strange Case of Robert Louis Stevenson's Travel Writing
  • K.Sandrock The Secret of the Father in the Colonial Secret: Rosa Praed's 'Weird Melancholy'
  • J.Rutherford Modernist Melancholia and Time: The Synchronicity of the Non-Synchronic in Freud, Tylor and Conrad
  • A.Enderwitz The Closed Circle of Britain's Postcolonial Melancholia
  • P.Gilroy PART IV: POSTMODERNISM AND POST-MELANCHOLIA? ETHICS AND AESTHETICS IN THE TWENTIETH AND TWENTY-FIRST CENTURIES Working at the Seams: Howard Barker's Tragic Trauerspiel
  • E.Sakellaridou Melancholia and Mourning Animals
  • J.Schiesari Melancholic Consolation? J. M. Coetzee, Irony, and the Aesthetics of the Sublime
  • J.Geertsema The Novel after Melancholia: On Tom McCarthy's Remainder and David Mitchell's Ghostwritten
  • P.Vermeulen Works Cited Index

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