Melancholy Experience in Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century - Before Depression, 1660-1800

Allan Ingram, Stuart Sim, Clark Lawlor, Richard Terry, Leigh Wetherall Dickson, John Baker

Palgrave Macmillan

2011

240 páginas

8h 0m

ISBN-13: 9780230246317

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rising from a research project on depression in the eighteenth century, this book discusses the experience of depressive states both in terms of existing modes of thought and expression, and of attempts to describe and live with suffering. It also asks what present-day society can learn about depression from the eighteenth-century experience.