Author: Robert Burton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Melancholy
Languages : en
Pages : 480

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Author: Robert Burton
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486148580
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 290

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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.

Author: Mary Ann Lund
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108982581
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 271

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A User's Guide to Melancholy takes Robert Burton's encyclopaedic masterpiece The Anatomy of Melancholy (first published in 1621) as a guide to one of the most perplexing, elusive, attractive, and afflicting diseases of the Renaissance. Burton's Anatomy is perhaps the largest, strangest, and most unwieldy self-help book ever written. Engaging with the rich cultural and literary framework of melancholy, this book traces its causes, symptoms, and cures through Burton's writing. Each chapter starts with a case study of melancholy - from the man who was afraid to urinate in case he drowned his town to the girl who purged a live eel - as a way into exploring the many facets of this mental affliction. A User's Guide to Melancholy presents in an accessible and illustrated format the colourful variety of Renaissance melancholy, and contributes to contemporary discussions about wellbeing by revealing the earlier history of mental health conditions.

Author: Robert Burton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Melancholy
Languages : en
Pages : 690

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Author: William E. Engel
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107086817
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 397

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Anthology of a selection of early modern works on memory.

Author: Shelley Jackson
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0307773930
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 194

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Amusing, touching, and unsettling, The Melancholy of Anatomy is that most wonderful of fictions, one that makes us see the world in an entirely new light. Here is the body turned inside out, its members set free, its humors released upon the world. Hearts bigger than planets devour light and warp the space around them; the city of London has a menstrual flow that gushes through its underground pipes; gobs of phlegm cement friendships and sexual relationships; and a floating fetus larger than a human becomes the new town pastor. In this debut story collection, Shelley Jackson rewrites our private passages, and translates the dumb show of the body into prose as gorgeous as it is unhygienic.

Author: Robert Burton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Melancholy
Languages : en
Pages : 620

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Author: Mary Ann Lund
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521190509
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 237

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Lund demonstrates the significance of Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy within early modern literary culture, covering religious and medical issues.

Author: Robert Burton
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141963336
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 116

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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.

Author: Angus Gowland
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107321085
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 580

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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.