A user's guide to melancholy / Mary Ann Lund.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lund, Mary Ann, 1978- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Depression, Mental.

Burton, Robert, 1577-1640. Anatomy of melancholy.

Burton, Robert.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 256 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021.

System Details:

text file

PDF

Summary:

A User's Guide to Melancholy takes Robert Burton's encyclopaedic masterpiece The Anatomy of Melancholy (first published in 1621) as a guide to one of the most perplexing, elusive, attractive, and afflicting diseases of the Renaissance. Burton's Anatomy is perhaps the largest, strangest, and most unwieldy self-help book ever written. Engaging with the rich cultural and literary framework of melancholy, this book traces its causes, symptoms, and cures through Burton's writing. Each chapter starts with a case study of melancholy - from the man who was afraid to urinate in case he drowned his town to the girl who purged a live eel - as a way into exploring the many facets of this mental affliction. A User's Guide to Melancholy presents in an accessible and illustrated format the colourful variety of Renaissance melancholy, and contributes to contemporary discussions about wellbeing by revealing the earlier history of mental health conditions.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Mar 2021).

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Print version:

ISBN:

9781108978996

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.