| Voices of Melancholy: Studies in Literary Treatments of Melancholy in Renaissance England Revised Edition Contributor(s): Lyons, Bridget Gellert (Author) |
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ISBN: 0393007553 ISBN-13: 9780393007558 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company OUR PRICE: $19.00 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 1975 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - General - Literary Criticism | Renaissance - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 810.935 |
| LCCN: 74030077 |
| Series: Norton Library (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.47" H x 5.08" W x 7.69" (0.46 lbs) 210 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book begins with a background on expository books about melancholy in the Renaissance with chapters on the literary uses of melancholy, Marston and melancholy, Melancholy and Hamlet, and the anatomy of melancholy as literature. When Shakespeare, Burton and other Renaissance writers gave melancholy the complex meanings and associations it has in their work, they were drawing on a tradition that had been developing throughout classical antiquity and the Middle Ages, and whose diverse origins made it an especially fruitful subject for literature. |