Title: Melancholy experience in literature of the long eighteenth century
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"--
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, Literature, modern, history and criticism, 18th century, Depression, History, 18th Century, Medicine in Literature, Mental Disorders, Mentally Ill Persons, Early modern, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literature
Time periods: Early modern, 1500-1700, 17th century, 18th century