Poetics of Melancholy in Early Modern England

Informationen zum Autor Douglas Trevor is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Iowa. He is co-editor of Historicism, Psychoanalysis, and Early Modern Culture (2000), and has published articles on Michel de Montaigne, Thomas More, Edmund Spenser, John Donne, George Herbert, and other early modern writers. He is also a contributing editor to The Complete Pelican Shakespeare (2002), and serves on the Editorial Board of the Shakespeare Yearbook. Klappentext Explores how attitudes toward! and explanations of! human emotions change in England during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century. Zusammenfassung The Poetics of Melancholy in Early Modern England explores the growing cultural signification of sadness in Renaissance England! and considers what the wide-ranging writings of self-described melancholics tell us about the era in which they lived. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. The reinvention of sadness; 2. Detachability and the passions in Edmund Spenser's The Shepheardes Calender; 3. Hamlet and the humors of skepticism; 4. John Donne and scholarly melancholy; 5. Robert Burton's melancholic England; 6. Solitary Milton; Epilogue: after Galenism: angelic corporeality in Paradise Lost.

Product details

• Authors: Douglas Trevor, Douglas (University of Iowa) Trevor
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.06.2009
• EAN: 9780521114233
• ISBN: 978-0-521-11423-3
• No. of pages: 268
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture; Cambridge Studies in Renaissan
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies