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The Melancholy Assemblage: Affect and Epistemology in the English Renaissance

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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 that have—until now—been ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Fordham University Press
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780823251285
SKU
V9780823251285
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About Drew Daniel
Drew Daniel is Assistant Professor of English at the Johns Hopkins University.

Reviews for The Melancholy Assemblage: Affect and Epistemology in the English Renaissance
"In this stimulating, inventive, and moving volume by one of Shakespeare studies' most brilliant and original emerging voices, Drew Daniel uses the history of melancholy in order to map the haptic loops and iconic postures that bind together thinking, feeling, and making in art and life. Along the way he answers questions that really matter, such as how melancholy forges ... Read more

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