Melancholy experience in literature of the long eighteenth century : before depression, 1660-1800 /
Ingram, Allan.
Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan,
2011.
"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"--
"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"--
Includes bibliographical references and index.
English literature
English literature
Melancholy in literature.
Depression, Mental, in literature.
Mental illness in literature.
Depression, Mental
Depression, Mental