Author: Robert BurtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Melancholy
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
The Anatomy of Melancholy
Author: Robert BurtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Melancholy
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
The Anatomy of Melancholy
Author: Robert BurtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Melancholy
Languages : en
Pages : 690
Book Description
The Essential Anatomy of Melancholy
Author: Robert BurtonPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486148580
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
One of the richest books in the English language, this systematized medical treatise on morbid mental states also features a compendium of memorable utterances on the human condition, compiled from classical, scholastic, and contemporary sources.
The Anatomy of Melancholy
Author: Robert BurtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Melancholy
Languages : en
Pages : 620
Book Description
A User's Guide to Melancholy
Author: Mary Ann LundPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108838847
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
400 years after The Anatomy of Melancholy, this book guides readers through Renaissance medicine's disease of the mind.
The Memory Arts in Renaissance England
Author: William E. EngelPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107086817
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
Anthology of a selection of early modern works on memory.
The Worlds of Renaissance Melancholy
Author: Angus GowlandPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107321085
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
Angus Gowland investigates the theory of melancholy and its many applications in the Renaissance by means of a wide-ranging contextual analysis of Robert Burton's encyclopaedic Anatomy of Melancholy (first published in 1621). Approaching the Anatomy as the culmination of early modern medical, philosophical and spiritual inquiry about melancholy, Gowland examines the ways in which Burton exploited the moral psychology central to the Renaissance understanding of the condition to construct a critical vision of his intellectual and political environment. In the first sustained analysis of the evolving relationship of the Anatomy (in the various versions issued between 1621 and 1651) to late Renaissance humanist learning and early seventeenth-century England and Europe, Gowland corrects the prevailing view of the work as an unreflective digest of other authors' opinions, and reveals the Anatomy's character as a polemical literary engagement with the live intellectual, religious and political issues of its day.
Handbook of English Renaissance Literature
Author: Ingo BerensmeyerPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110436086
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1003
Book Description
This handbook of English Renaissance literature serves as a reference for both students and scholars, introducing recent debates and developments in early modern studies. Using new theoretical perspectives and methodological tools, the volume offers exemplary close readings of canonical and less well-known texts from all significant genres between c. 1480 and 1660. Its systematic chapters address questions about editing Renaissance texts, the role of translation, theatre and drama, life-writing, science, travel and migration, and women as writers, readers and patrons. The book will be of particular interest to those wishing to expand their knowledge of the early modern period beyond Shakespeare.
Robert Burton's Rhetoric
Author: Susan WellsPublisher:
ISBN: 9780271084664
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Illustrates how Oxford scholar Robert Burton used the resources available to a seventeenth century academic: genres and languages, as well as academic disciplines such as medicine and rhetoric. Demonstrates how early modern practices of knowledge and persuasion can offer a model for transdisciplinary scholarship today.
Some Anatomies of Melancholy
Author: Robert BurtonPublisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141963336
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Not simply an investigation into melancholy, these unique essays form part of a panoramic celebration of human behaviour from the time of the ancients to the Renaissance. God, devils, old age, diet, drunkenness, love and beauty are each given equal consideration in this all-encompassing examination of the human condition. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves – and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives – and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are.