The Poetics of Melancholy in Early Modern England
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- Author: Douglas Trevor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
- Date Published: June 2009
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- isbn: 9780521114233
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Exploring how attitudes toward human emotions changed in England during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, this book emphasizes the shared concerns of the 'non-literary' and 'literary' texts produced by Edmund Spenser, John Donne, Robert Burton, and John Milton. Douglas Trevor asserts that 'scholarly' practices such as glossing texts and appending sidenotes influenced the methods by which these writers came to analyze their own moods.
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"A highly significant history of the passions...."
-SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900See more reviews"...the visual parameters are set forth with laudable clarity and comprehensiveness. Kiefer's work, which concludes with an exemplary thirty-five page select bibliography, is a welcome addition to Shakespeare studies."
-Clifford Davidson, Modern Philology"Douglas Trevor's Poetics of Melancholy is an illuminating and thought-provoking analysis of the representation of sadness in early modern English writing."
-Ian Frederick Moultan, Arizona State University Polytechnic"[T]his is a fascinating, probing book."
-David W. Swain, Southern New Hampshire University, American and English Studies"This book constitutes a major contribution to Renaissance studies: lucidly written, ambitious in its choice of topic and of texts, and opulently intelligent in the details of its literary analysis." --Katherine Elsaman Maus, University of Virginia.
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- Date Published: June 2009
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521114233
- length: 268 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 15 mm
- weight: 0.4kg
- contains: 9 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. The reinvention of sadness
2. Detachability and the passions in Edmund Spenser's The Shepheardes Calender
3. Hamlet and the humors of skepticism
4. John Donne and scholarly melancholy
5. Robert Burton's melancholic England
6. Solitary Milton
Epilogue: after Galenism: angelic corporeality in Paradise Lost.
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