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- The Melancholy Assemblage: Affect and Epistemology in the English Renaissance
- Book
- 2013
- Published by: Fordham University Press
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 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.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright
- pp. i-vi
- Illustrations
- pp. ix-x
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xi-xvi
- Introduction
- pp. 1-33
- 4. That Within Which Passes Show
- pp. 120-154
- 5. Rhapsodies of Rags
- pp. 155-199
- 6. My Self, My Sepulcher
- pp. 200-228
- Bibliography
- pp. 289-302
- Image Plates
- pp. 313-316
Additional Information
ISBN
9780823251292
Related ISBN(s)
9780823251278
MARC Record
OCLC
847005653
Pages
328
Launched on MUSE
2013-06-30
Language
English
Open Access
No