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Marion A. Wells - The Secret Wound: Love-Melancholy and Early Modern Romance - 9780804750462 - V9780804750462
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The Secret Wound: Love-Melancholy and Early Modern Romance

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Description for The Secret Wound: Love-Melancholy and Early Modern Romance Hardback. This book offers a new reading of early modern romance in the light of historically contemporary accounts of mind, and specifically the medical tradition of love-melancholy. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 27. Weight in Grams: 630.

This book offers a new reading of early modern romance in the light of historically contemporary accounts of mind, and specifically the medical tradition of love-melancholy. The book argues that the medical profile of the melancholic lover provides an essential context for understanding the characteristic patterns of romance: narrative deferral, epistemological uncertainty, and the endless quest for a quasi-phantasmic beloved. Unlike many recent studies of romance, this book establishes a detailed historical basis for investigating the psychological structure of romance. Wells begins by tracing the development of the medical disorder first known in the Latin west as amor hereos (lovesickness) ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804750462
SKU
V9780804750462
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About Marion A. Wells
Marion A. Wells is Associate Professor of English at Middlebury College.

Reviews for The Secret Wound: Love-Melancholy and Early Modern Romance
"In this unusual and fruitful study, Wells offers a new reading of early modern romance in the light of historically contemporary accounts of the medical perception of love-melancholy."
Book News, INC. "The Secret Wound is well-written and beautifully researched; its impact will be wide, deep, and across several disciplinary borders. Its trenchant account of the widespread literary phenomenon of ... Read more

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