Title: The secret wound
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.
Subjects: European literature, History and criticism, Love in literature, Lovesickness in literature, Medieval Literature, Literature, medieval, history and criticism
Time periods: Renaissance, 1450-1600