Allan Ingram, Stuart Sim, Clark Lawlor, Richard Terry, John Baker and Leigh Wetherall-Dickson, Melancholy Experience in the Long Eighteenth Century
Through the wide corpus it focuses on, this remarkable volume (one introduction and six chapters) aims at answering the following question: “what was depression like before depression existed as a standardized medical concept with a recognizable cluster of symptoms?” (2). The contributors explore t...
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| Vydáno v: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/miranda, |
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| Médium: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Jazyk: | Anglais |
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Miranda
2013
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| On-line přístup: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Shrnutí: | Through the wide corpus it focuses on, this remarkable volume (one introduction and six chapters) aims at answering the following question: “what was depression like before depression existed as a standardized medical concept with a recognizable cluster of symptoms?” (2). The contributors explore the conditions, experience, discourse and representation of melancholy in the long eighteenth century from various perspectives—medical, philosophical, social and literary—and enable the reader to e... |
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