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