An edition of Melancholy experience in literature of the long eighteenth century
(2011)
Melancholy experience in literature of the long eighteenth century
before depression, 1660-1800
by Allan Ingram
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"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"--
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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 PersonsShowing 1 featured edition. View all 1 editions?
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Melancholy experience in literature of the long eighteenth century: before depression, 1660-1800
2011, Palgrave Macmillan
in English
0230246311 9780230246317
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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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 228-239) and index.
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