The secret wound
Subtitle: love-melancholy and early modern romance
By: Marion A. Wells.
Series: Figurae; Figurae (Stanford, Calif.)
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
Subjects: Love in literature; Lovesickness in literature; Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism; European literature -- Renaissance, 1450-1600 -- History and criticism
Description: Offers a reading of early modern romance in the light of historically contemporary accounts of mind, and specifically the medical tradition of love-melancholy. This book establishes a detailed historical basis for investigating the psychological structure of romance. It investigates the central critical problem of early modern subjectivity.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.