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The Poetics of Melancholy in Early Modern England
Douglas Trevor
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Description for The Poetics of Melancholy in Early Modern England
Paperback. This book explores how attitudes toward, and explanations of, human emotions change in England during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century. Series: Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature & Culture. Num Pages: 268 pages, 9 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3JB; DSBD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 231 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 420.
The Poetics of Melancholy in Early Modern England explores how attitudes toward, and explanations of, human emotions change in England during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century. Typically categorized as 'literary' writers Edmund Spenser, John Donne, Robert Burton and John Milton were all active in the period's reappraisal of the single emotion that, due to their efforts, would become the passion most associated with the writing life: melancholy. By emphasising the shared concerns of the 'non-literary' and 'literary' texts produced by these figures, Douglas Trevor asserts that quintessentially 'scholarly' practices such as glossing texts and appending sidenotes shape the ... Read more
The Poetics of Melancholy in Early Modern England explores how attitudes toward, and explanations of, human emotions change in England during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century. Typically categorized as 'literary' writers Edmund Spenser, John Donne, Robert Burton and John Milton were all active in the period's reappraisal of the single emotion that, due to their efforts, would become the passion most associated with the writing life: melancholy. By emphasising the shared concerns of the 'non-literary' and 'literary' texts produced by these figures, Douglas Trevor asserts that quintessentially 'scholarly' practices such as glossing texts and appending sidenotes shape the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Condition
New
Series
Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature & Culture
Number of Pages
268
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521114233
SKU
V9780521114233
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About Douglas Trevor
Douglas Trevor is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Iowa. He is co-editor of Historicism, Psychoanalysis, and Early Modern Culture (2000), and has published articles on Michel de Montaigne, Thomas More, Edmund Spenser, John Donne, George Herbert, and other early modern writers. He is also a contributing editor to The Complete Pelican Shakespeare (2002), and serves on the ... Read more
Reviews for The Poetics of Melancholy in Early Modern England
"A highly significant history of the passions...." -SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 "...the visual parameters are set forth with laudable clarity and comprehensiveness. Kiefer's work, which concludes with an exemplary thirty-five page select bibliography, is a welcome addition to Shakespeare studies." -Clifford Davidson, Modern Philology "Douglas Trevor's Poetics of Melancholy is an ... Read more