Melancholy Assemblage : Affect and Epistemology in the English Renaissance.
This book considers melancholy as an 'assemblage', as a network of dynamic, interpretive relationships between persons, bodies, texts, spaces, structures, and things. In doing so, it parts ways with past interpretations of melancholy. Tilting the English Renaissance against the present mom...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Fordham University Press,
2013
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | This book considers melancholy as an 'assemblage', as a network of dynamic, interpretive relationships between persons, bodies, texts, spaces, structures, and things. In doing so, it parts ways with past interpretations of melancholy. Tilting the English Renaissance against the present moment, the book argues that the basic disciplinary tension between medicine and philosophy persists within contemporary debates about emotional embodiment. To make this case, the book binds together the paintings of Nicholas Hilliard and Isaac Oliver, the drama of William Shakespeare, the prose of Robert Burton, and the poetry of John Milton. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (329 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780823251292 0823251292 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
