Melancholy experience in literature of the long eighteenth century :
General Material Designation
[Book]
Other Title Information
before depression, 1660-1800 /
First Statement of Responsibility
by Allan Ingram ... [and others]
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Palgrave Macmillan,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2011
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
ix, 246 pages,
Dimensions
23 cm
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
CONTENTS NOTE
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Machine generated contents note: -- Acknowledgements -- Author Biographies -- Introduction: Depression Before Depression; A.Ingram and S.Sim -- Fashionable Melancholy; C.Lawlor -- Philosophical Melancholy; R.Terry -- Strange contrarys : Figures of Melancholy in Eighteenth-Century Poetry; J.Baker -- Despair, Melancholy and the Novel; S.Sim -- Melancholy, Medicine, Mad Moon and Marriage: Autobiographical Expressions of Depression; L.Wetherall-Dickson -- Deciphering Difference: A Study in Medical Literacy; A.Ingram -- Bibliography -- Index
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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"Arising from a research project on depression in the eighteenth century, this book discusses the experience of depressive states both in terms of existing modes of thought and expression, and of attempts to describe and live with suffering. It also asks what present-day society can learn about depression from the eighteenth-century experience"--
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Depression, Mental-- History-- 17th century
Depression, Mental-- History-- 18th century
Depression, Mental, in literature
English literature-- 18th century-- History and criticism
English literature-- Early modern, 1500-1700-- History and criticism