Robert Burton and the Transformative Powers of Melancholy

ISBN-13: 9780367879983 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 230 str.

Stephanie Shirilan

Opis

In this study, Stephanie Shirilan unearths and contextualizes the celebration of the powers of the melancholic imagination in Burton’s Anatomy of Melancholy, thus rescuing it from the overly literal readings of contemporary historicism. Situating Burton’s recognition of cognitive and spiritual impressionability in its physiological and theological

Spis treści

Introduction

1 Democritus Junior: Discerning Care

2 Heroic Hypochondria and the Sympathetic Delusions of Melancholy

3 Exhilirating the Spirits: Study as Cure for Scholarly Melancholy

4 "Exonerating" Melancholy

Epilogue: Loving Burton, or Burton for Amateurs

O autorze

Stephanie Shirilan is Assistant Professor of English at Syracuse University, USA.