The Gendering of Melancholia : : Feminism, Psychoanalysis, and the Symbolics of Loss in Renaissance Literature / / Juliana Schiesari.
The pantheon of renowned melancholics—from Shakespeare's Hamlet to Walter Benjamin—includes no women, an absence that in Juliana Schiesari's view points less to a dearth of unhappy women in patriarchal culture than to the lack of significance accorded to women's grief. Through penetra...
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| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. The Gendering of Freud’s “Mourning and Melancholia”
- Chapter 2. Black Humor? Gender and Genius in the Melancholic Tradition
- Chapter 3. Appropriating the Work of Women’s Mourning: From Petrarch to Gaspara Stampa, and from Isabella di Morra to Tasso
- Chapter 4. Soverchia maninconia: Tasso’s Hydra
- Chapter 5. Mourning the Phallus? (Hamlet, Burton, Lacan and “Others”)
- Index