The Poetics of Melancholy in Early Modern EnglandThe Poetics of Melancholy in Early Modern England explores how attitudes toward, and explanations of, human emotions change in England during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century. By emphasising the shared concerns of the 'non-literary' and 'literary' texts produced by figures such as Edmund Spenser, John Donne, Robert Burton, and John Milton, Douglas Trevor asserts that quintessentially 'scholarly' practices such as glossing texts and appending sidenotes shape the methods by which these same writers come to analyse their own moods. |
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Contents
The reinvention of sadness | |
The margins of learning | 22 |
Detachability and the passions in Edmund Spensers The Shepheardes Calender | 32 |
Sadness in The Faerie Queene | 45 |
Hamlet and the humors of skepticism | 61 |
John Donne and scholarly melancholy | 85 |
the Sidenote as Symptom | 103 |
Robert Burtons melancholic England | 114 |
Burtons scholarly method | 128 |
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| Title | The Poetics of Melancholy in Early Modern England Volume 48 of Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture |
| Author | Douglas Trevor |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, 2004 |
| ISBN | 0521834694, 9780521834698 |
| Length | 252 pages |
| Subjects | › › Literary Criticism / European / Eastern Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Literary Criticism / General |
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