The Worlds of Renaissance Melancholy by Angus Gowland

The Worlds of Renaissance Melancholy

Ideas in Context

Angus Gowland

338 pages first pub 2006 (editions)

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Angus Gowland investigates the theory of melancholy and its many applications in the Renaissance by means of a wide-ranging contextual analysis of Robert Burton's encyclopaedic Anatomy of Melancholy (first published in 1621). Approaching the Anato...

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