Melancholy experience in literature of the long eighteenth century
Subtitle: before depression, 1660-1800
By: by Allan Ingram ... [et al.].
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9780230246317
Subjects: Melancholie; English literature; Melancholy in literature; LITERARY CRITICISM / General; Mental Depression; History and criticism; Depression, Mental, in literature; Engels; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Bellettrie; Mental illness in literature; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory; History
Description: "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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 228-239) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Acknowledgements; title: Author Biographies; title: Introduction: Depression Before Depression; A.Ingram & S.Sim; title: Fashionable Melancholy; C.Lawlor; title: Philosophical Melancholy; R.Terry; title: Strange contrarys : Figures of Melancholy in Eighteenth-Century Poetry; J.Baker; title: Despair, Melancholy and the Novel; S.Sim; title: Melancholy, Medicine, Mad Moon and Marriage: Autobiographical Expressions of Depression; L.Wetherall-Dickson; title: Deciphering Difference: A Study in Medical Literacy; A.Ingram; title: Bibliography; title: Index.