| The Melancholy Assemblage: Affect and Epistemology in the English Renaissance Contributor(s): Daniel, Drew (Author) |
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ISBN: 0823251284 ISBN-13: 9780823251285 Publisher: Fordham University Press OUR PRICE: $33.25 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Literary Criticism | Shakespeare - Literary Criticism | Renaissance |
| Dewey: 820.935 |
| LCCN: 2012043868 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6" W x 8.9" (1.00 lbs) 328 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 which 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Daniel, Drew: - Drew Daniel is Assistant Professor of English at the Johns Hopkins University. |