The secret wound : love-melancholy and early modern romance /

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Offers a reading of early modern romance in the light of historically contemporary accounts of mind, and specifically the medical tradition of love-melancholy. This book establishes a detailed historical basis for investigating the psychological structure of romance. It investigates the central crit...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Wells, Marion A.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2007.
Series:Figurae (Stanford, Calif.)
Subjects:
1450-1600
Love in literature.
Lovesickness in literature.
Literature, Medieval > History and criticism.
European literature > Renaissance, 1450-1600 > History and criticism.
Amour dans la littérature.
Littérature médiévale > Histoire et critique.
Littérature européenne > 1450-1600 (Renaissance) > Histoire et critique.
TRAVEL > Special Interest > Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
European literature > Renaissance
Literature, Medieval
Love in literature
Lovesickness in literature
Bellettrie.
Liefdesverdriet.
Melancholie.
Medische aspecten.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Love-melancholy and early modern romance
  • From Amor hereos to love-melancholy: a medico-literary history
  • "Vulnus caecum": the secret wound of love-melancholy
  • "Solvite me": epic, romance, and the poetics of melancholy in Orlando Furioso
  • "Il primo error": love-melancholy in Gerusalemme Liberata
  • Rewriting romance: Arthur's "secret wound" and the "lamentable lay" of elegy
  • "The love-sicke hart": female love-melancholy and the romance quest
  • Conclusion: La Belle Dame Sans Merci: romance and the dream of "language strange."

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