The secret wound : love-melancholy and early modern romance / Marion A. Wells.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wells, Marion A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Love in literature.

Lovesickness in literature.

Literature, Medieval--History and criticism.

Literature, Medieval.

European literature--Renaissance, 1450-1600--History and criticism.

European literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (380 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 critical problem of early modern subjectivity.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Love-Melancholy and Early Modern Romance

1. From Amor heroes to Love-Melancholy: A Medico-Literary History

2. Vulnus caecum: The Secret Wound of Love-Melancholy

3. Solvite me: Epic, Romance, and the Poetics of Melancholy in the Orlando Furioso

4. Il primo error: Love-Melancholy and Romance in the Gerusalemme Liberata

5. Rewriting Romance: Arthur’s “Secret Wound” and the “Lamentable Lay” of Elegy

6. “The Love-sicke hart”: Female Love-Melancholy and the Romance Quest

Conclusion: La Belle Dame Sans Merci: Romance and the Dream of “Language Strange”

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [341]-351) and index.

ISBN:

0-8047-6744-0

1-4356-0879-8

OCLC:

290565461