The Melancholy Assemblage : : Affect and Epistemology in the English Renaissance / / Drew Daniel.
This book considers melancholy as an “assemblage,” as a network of dynamic, interpretive relationships between persons, bodies, texts, spaces, structures, and things. In doing so, it parts ways with past interpretations of melancholy. Tilting the English Renaissance against the present moment, Danie...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014 |
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Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2022] ©2013 |
Year of Publication: | 2022 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (328 p.) :; 6 color and 10 black & white illustrations |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknow ledg ments -- Introduction -- 1. From Dürer’s Angel to Harlow’s Monkey -- 2. Three Hundred Years Out of Fashion -- 3. Let Me Have Judgment, and the Jew His Will -- 4. That Within Which Passes Show -- 5. Rhapsodies of Rags -- 6. My Self, My Sepulcher -- Epilogue: Disassembling Melancholy -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Summary: | This book considers melancholy as an “assemblage,” as a network of dynamic, interpretive relationships between persons, bodies, texts, spaces, structures, and things. In doing so, it parts ways with past interpretations of melancholy. Tilting the English Renaissance against the present moment, Daniel argues that the basic disciplinary tension between medicine and philosophy persists within contemporary debates about emotional embodiment. To make this case, the book binds together the paintings of Nicholas Hilliard and Isaac Oliver, the drama of Shakespeare, the prose of Burton, and the poetry of Milton. Crossing borders and periods, Daniel combines recent theories that have—until now—been regarded as incongruous by their respective advocates. Asking fundamental questions about how the experience of emotion produces community, the book will be of interest to scholars of early modern literature, psychoanalysis, the affective turn, and continental philosophy. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9780823293056 9783111189604 9783110707298 |
DOI: | 10.1515/9780823293056 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Drew Daniel. |