The literature of melancholia : early modern to postmodern / edited by Martin Middeke and Christina Wald.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Middeke, M. (Martin), 1948-

Wald, Christina, 1976-

Phi Beta Kappa Library Trust Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--History and criticism.

English literature.

Melancholy in literature.

Melancholy.

Physical Description:

xiii, 271 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

Summary:

This collection analyzes philosophical, psycho-analytic and aesthetic contexts of the discourse of melancholia in British and postcolonial literature and culture and seeks to trace the multi-faceted phenomenon of melancholia from the early modern period to the present. Texts discussed range from Shakespeare and Milton to Coetzee and Barker.

Contents:

Melancholia as a sense of loss: an introduction / Martin Middeke and Christina Wald

Yet once more: melancholia and amnesia in Milton's Lycidas / Tobias Döring

Male pregnancies, virgin births, monsters of the mind: early modern melancholia and (cross-)gendered constructions of creativity / Anne-Julia Zwierlein

Mourning and melancholia in England and its transatlantic colonies: examples of seventeenth-century female appropriations / drGabriele Rippl

"To pictur'd regions and imagin'd worlds": female melancholic writing and the poems of Mary Leapor / Sabine Blackmore

"The dark bottomless abyss, that lies under our feet, had yawned open": the rescission of the male melancholic genius in Carlyle's Sartor Resartus / Felix Sprang

"They came, they cut away my tallest pines": Tennyson and the melancholy of modernity / Andrew Gibson

The melancholy of history: the French Revolution and European historiography / Peter Fritzsche

Commercialising melancholy: the National Trust / Christoph Ehland and Stephan Kohl

Melancholia in the South Pacific: the strange case of Robert Louis Stevenson's travel writing / Kirsten Sandrock

The secret of the father in the colonial secret: Rosa Praed's Weird Melancholy / Jennifer Rutherford

Modernist melancholia and time: the synchronicity of the non-synchronic in Freud, Tylor and Conrad / Anne Enderwitz

The closed circle of Britain's postcolonial melancholia / Paul Gilroy

Working at the seams: Howard Barker's Tragic Trauerspiel / Elizabeth Sakellaridou

Melancholia and mourning animals / Juliana Schiesari

Melancholic consolation?: J. M. Coetzee, irony, and the aesthetics of the sublime / Johan Geertsema

The novel after melancholia: on Tom McCarthy's Remainder and David Mitchell's Ghostwritten / Pieter Vermeulen.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Phi Beta Kappa Library Trust Fund.

ISBN:

0230293727

9780230293724

OCLC:

724656991

Publisher Number:

99947524717