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The melancholy assemblage : affect and epistemology in the English Renaissance
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The melancholy assemblage : affect and epistemology in the English Renaissance / Drew Daniel.
ISBN
9780823252701 (ebook) :
Publication
New York : Fordham University Press, 2013.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xiii, 309 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (black and white, and colour)
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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, the book 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 William Shakespeare, the prose of Robert Burton, and the poetry of John Milton.
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University press scholarship online.
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Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 25, 2015
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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