The politics of melancholy from Spenser to Milton
By: by Adam H. Kitzes.
Series: Literary criticism and cultural theory
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
Subjects: English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.; Melancholy in literature.; Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 16th century.; Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.   ) and index.
Table of contents: title: Melancholy and the possibility of nationhood in Bright and Spenser; title: Reason is fled to beasts : malcontents and animals in the "humour" plays of Jonson and Shakespeare; title: Dissension and its malcontents, or, States of melancholy; title: And yet I am my own executioner : rumor, suicide, and textual authority in John Donne's Devotions; title: Robert Burton and the "language" of melancholy; title: The distractions of the times : ideologies of madness and disease during the Civil War and Interregnum; title: Tell us the sum : Milton's accounts of melancholy and madness in the 1670s.