Robert Burton: The Anatomy of Melancholy: Volume V: Commentary From - Part. 1, Sect. 2, Memb. 4, Subs. 1 to the End of the Second Partitio

Zusatztext This penultimate tome of a six-volume edition of Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy joins its predecessors in a series variously acclaimed as being "magisterial", "splendid", "lucid", and "magnificent". Such esteem has followed the series since the first volume's publication in 1989; this fifth one unquestionably merits the same praise Klappentext This volume contains commentary on the text from Partition 1, Section 2, Member 4, Subscription 1 to the end of the second Partition. It thus includes Burton's account of the causes, symptoms, and prognosis of melancholy, and his examination of remedies, spiritual and medical. Zusammenfassung This, the fifth volume of Robert Burton's "Anatomy of Melancholy" concludes Burton's account of the causes, the symptoms, and the prognosis of melancholy, and his examination of the remedies for the disease both spiritual and medical. The commentary aids readers' understanding of Burton's meaning. Inhaltsverzeichnis Abbreviations COMMENTARY: Partition 1, section 2, member 4, subsection 1 to the end of Partition 1 Partition 2 [complete]

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• Authors: J. B. Bamborough, J. B. (Former Principal Bamborough, Robert Burton, Robert Bamborough Burton, Martin Dodsworth
• Assisted by: J B Bamborough (Editor), J. B. Bamborough (Editor), Martin Dodsworth (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.04.2000
• EAN: 9780198184850
• ISBN: 978-0-19-818485-0
• No. of pages: 326
• Series: Oxford English Texts; Oxford English Texts; C Oet T Oxford English Texts
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies