Moody Minds Distempered: Essays on Melancholy and Depression

Jennifer Radden

OUP USA

2009

208 páginas

6h 56m

ISBN-13: 9780195338287

This volume collects Jennifer Radden's well-known research on melancholy and depression with new writing that develops the implications of recognizing melancholy and depressive states as moods, further explores questions of method as they affect characterizations of melancholy and depression, and analyzes cultural tropes linking such states to brilliance, creativity, and sagacity.