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

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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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Wells, Marion A.
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2007.
Collection:Figurae (Stanford, Calif.)
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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."