The worlds of Renaissance melancholy : Robert Burton in context /

"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 Anatomy as the culmination of early modern medi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gowland, Angus
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Colección:Ideas in context ; 78.
Temas:
Burton, Robert, > 1577-1640. > Anatomy of melancholy.
Burton, Robert, > 1577-1640 > Anatomy of melancholy
Burton > Robert > 1577-1640 > Anatomy of melancholy.
Burton, Robert (1577-1640). > Anatomy of melancholy.
Anatomy of melancholy (Burton, Robert)
Melancholy.
Medicine in literature.
Depressive Disorder
Medicine in Literature
Mélancolie.
Médecine dans la littérature.
melancholy.
MEDICAL > Mental Health.
MEDICAL > Psychiatry > General.
PSYCHOLOGY > Clinical Psychology.
PSYCHOLOGY > Mental Illness.
PSYCHOLOGY > Psychopathology > General.
Medicine in literature
Melancholy
Europe.
Europe
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The medical theory of melancholy
  • Dissecting medical learning
  • Melancholy and divinity
  • The melancholy body politic
  • Utopia, consolation, and withdrawal
  • Conclusion: Robert Burton's melancholy.

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