Melancholy experience in literature of the long eighteenth century : before depression, 1660-1800 / by Allan Ingram ... [et al.].
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Ingram, Allan (författare, redaktör/utgivare)
- ISBN 9780230246317
- Publicerad: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; Palgrave Macmillan, 2011
- Engelska ix, 246 p.
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- Machine generated contents note: -- Acknowledgements -- Author Biographies -- Introduction: Depression Before Depression; A.Ingram & S.Sim -- Fashionable Melancholy; C.Lawlor -- Philosophical Melancholy; R.Terry -- Strange contrarys : Figures of Melancholy in Eighteenth-Century Poetry; J.Baker -- Despair, Melancholy and the Novel; S.Sim -- Melancholy, Medicine, Mad Moon and Marriage: Autobiographical Expressions of Depression; L.Wetherall-Dickson -- Deciphering Difference: A Study in Medical Literacy; A.Ingram -- Bibliography -- Index.
- "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"--
Ämnesord
- Melankoli i litteraturen (sao)
- Psykiska sjukdomar i litteraturen (sao)
- Melancholy in literature. (LCSH)
- Depression, Mental, in literature. (LCSH)
- Mental illness in literature. (LCSH)
- English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism. (LCSH)
- English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism. (LCSH)
- Depression, Mental -- History -- 18th century. (LCSH)
- Depression, Mental -- History -- 17th century. (LCSH)
- LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh (bisacsh)
- LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory (bisacsh)
- LITERARY CRITICISM / General (bisacsh)
- Melancholie (gtt)
- Bellettrie (gtt)
- Engels (gtt)
- Engelsk litteratur -- historia -- 1500-talet -- 1600-talet (sao)
- Depression (psykiatri) -- historia -- 1500-talet -- 1600-talet (sao)
- Mental illness in literature (LCSH)
- Melancholy in literature (LCSH)
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- PR448.M44 (LCC)
- 809.93353 (DDC)
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