Stephanie Shirilan

Robert Burton and the Transformative Powers of Melancholy (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

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 contexts, Shirilan identifies overlooked echoes of his advice that melancholic readers cure themselves by unsealing their minds and hearts.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. März 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317062264
• Artikelnr.: 44864910

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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