User's guide to melancholy, a
Auteur :
Lund, Mary Ann
Éditeur :
Cambridge University Press
ISBN :
9781108838849
Date de publication :
25 févr. 2021
Dimensions :
22,3 x 14,5 x 1,7 cm
Poids :
490 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
A User's Guide to Melancholy takes Robert Burton's encyclopaedic masterpiece The Anatomy of Melancholy as a guide to melancholy, from cause to cure. Through case studies, it explores a Renaissance disease of the mind that inclined its sufferers towards sadness and fear but also delusion, despair, hilarity, and artistic creativity.