The literature of melancholia
Subtitle: early modern to postmodern
By: [edited by] Martin Middeke, Christina Wald
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230293724
Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General; Melancholy; English literature; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Melancholy in literature; LITERARY CRITICISM / General; History and criticism
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Melancholia as a sense of loss : an introduction / Martin Middeke and Christina Wald; title: Yet once more : melancholia and amnesia in Milton's Lycidas / Tobias Döring; title: Male pregnancies, virgin births, monsters of the mind : early modern melancholia and (cross-)gendered constructions of creativity / Anne-Julia Zwierlein; title: Mourning and melancholia in England and its transatlantic colonies : examples of seventeenth-century female appropriations / Gabriele Rippl; title: "To pictur'd regions and imagin'd worlds" : female melancholic writing and the poems of Mary Leapor / Sabine Blackmore; title: "The dark bottomless abyss, that lies under our feet, had yawned open" : the rescission of the male melancholic genius in Carlyle's Sartor Resartus / Felix Sprang; title: "They came, they cut away my tallest pines" : Tennyson and the melancholy of modernity / Andrew Gibson; title: The melancholy of history : the French Revolution and European historiography / Peter Fritzsche; title: Commercialising melancholy : the National Trust / Christoph Ehland and Stephan Kohl; title: Melancholia in the South Pacific : the strange case of Robert Louis Stevenson's travel writing / Kirsten Sandrock; title: The secret of the father in the colonial secret : Rosa Praed's Weird Melancholy / Jennifer Rutherford; title: Modernist melancholia and time : the synchronicity of the non-synchronic in Freud, Tylor and Conrad / Anne Enderwitz; title: The closed circle of Britain's postcolonial melancholia / Paul Gilroy; title: Working at the seams : Howard Barker's Tragic Trauerspiel / Elizabeth Sakellaridou; title: Melancholia and mourning animals / Juliana Schiesari; title: Melancholic consolation? : J. M. Coetzee, irony, and the aesthetics of the sublime / Johan Geertsema; title: The novel after melancholia : on Tom McCarthy's Remainder and David Mitchell's Ghostwritten / Pieter Vermeulen.