The Anatomy of Melancholy: Volume II: Text

ISBN-13: 9780198123309 / Angielski / Twarda / 1990 / 464 str.

Robert Burton; Nicolas K. Kiessling; Rhonda L. Blair

Opis

The second volume of Burton's masterful work, The Anatomy of Melancholy, this edition includes the text and textual apparatus for "The Second Partition." Burton furnishes the full spectrum of cures for melancholy, outlining and analyzing the symptoms and causes of the disorder in the same format as in the first partition. In the "Digression of the Ayre," he presents a remarkable synthesis of the cultural, geographical, and climatic influences on temperament, and in the final two sections presents extensive remedies from both physics and surgery.

Recenzje

`If the same care and industry that have been lavished on the text of the first two partitions is evident in the commentary ... then volumes four and five ought to be a treasure ... the book is an invaluable resource for students in a variety of disciplines: intellectual, cultural, and scientific history' Journal of English and Germanic Philology