Description: The Worlds of Renaissance Melancholy: Robert Burton in Context. Hardcover with dust jacket. 2006. Please see gallery of photos. Used book with tight binding. Dust jacket has some scratches and folds. Remainder mark on bottom of book. Please see photos for examples of handwritten annotations on pages. (These notes were written by a graduate student, so perhaps you might actually find them helpful instead of distracting.) Good condition overall. From smoke-free home. *** Description of book's contents. ***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 medical, philosophical and spiritual inquiry about melancholy, Gowland examines the ways in which Burton exploited the moral psychology central to the Renaissance understanding of the condition to construct a critical vision of his intellectual and political environment. In the first sustained analysis of the evolving relationship of the Anatomy (in the various versions issued between 1621 and 1651) to late Renaissance humanist learning and early-seventeenth century England and Europe, Gowland corrects the prevailing view of the work as an unreflective digest of other authors' opinions, and reveals the Anatomy's character as a polemical literary engagement with the live intellectual, religious and political issues of its day.
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Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Dust Jacket
Author: Gowland, Angus
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Topic: Renaissance
Subject: History
Year Printed: 2006
Original/Facsimile: Original
