Melancholy experience in literature of the long eighteenth century : before depression, 1660-1800

Publication Data

• Title Melancholy experience in literature of the long eighteenth century : before depression, 1660-1800
• Contributor Allan Ingram
• Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date 2011
• Publication location Basingstoke
• Language English

Contents

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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.

Topics

• English literature :: 18th century :: History and criticism
• English literature :: Early modern, 1500-1700 :: History and criticism
• Melancholy in literature
• Depression, Mental, in literature
• Mental illness in literature
• Depression, Mental :: History :: 18th century
• 015700713

Melancholy experience in literature of the long eighteenth century : before depression, 1660-1800. ISBN 9780230246317. Published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2011. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.