Baker, John
Melancholy Experience in Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century
1. Introduction: Depression before Depression
Allan Ingram, Stuart Sim
2. Fashionable Melancholy
Clark Lawlor
3. Philosophical Melancholy
Richard Terry
4. ‘Strange Contrarys’: Figures of Melancholy in Eighteenth-Century Poetry
John Baker
5. Despair, Melancholy and the Novel
Stuart Sim
6. Melancholy, Medicine, Mad Moon and Marriage: Autobiographical Expressions of Depression
Leigh Wetherall-Dickson
7. Deciphering Difference: A Study in Medical Literacy
Allan Ingram
Keywords: Literature, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, British and Irish Literature, Eighteenth-Century Literature, Poetry and Poetics, Fiction
- Author(s)
- Baker, John
- Ingram, Allan
- Lawlor, Clark
- Sim, Stuart
- Terry, Richard
- Wetherall-Dickson, Leigh
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2011
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Page amount
- 255 pages
- Category
- Litterary Studies
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9780230306592
- Printed ISBN
- 978-1-349-31949-7