The melancholy assemblage
Daniel, Drew, 1971-
The melancholy assemblage affect and epistemology in the English Renaissance / [electronic resource] : Drew Daniel. - New York : Fordham University Press, 2013. - 1 online resource (pages cm)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"This book considers melancholy as an "assemblage," as a network of dynamic, interpretive relationships between persons, bodies, texts, spaces, structures, and things. In doing so, it parts ways with past interpretations of melancholy. Tilting the English Renaissance against the present moment, Daniel argues that the basic disciplinary tension between medicine and philosophy persists within contemporary debates about emotional embodiment. To make this case, the book binds together the paintings of Nicholas Hilliard and Isaac Oliver, the drama of Shakespeare, the prose of Burton, and the poetry of Milton. Crossing borders and periods, Daniel combines recent theories which have--until now--been regarded as incongruous by their respective advocates. Asking fundamental questions about how the experience of emotion produces community, the book will be of interest to scholars of early modern literature, psychoanalysis, the affective turn, and continental philosophy"--
9780823251292
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Shakespeare.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General.
Renaissance--England.
Science--Philosophy.
Science in literature.
Art and literature--History.--Great Britain
Literature and science--History.--Great Britain
Knowledge, Theory of, in literature.
Affect (Psychology) in literature.
English literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.--Early modern, 1500-1700
Electronic books.
PR421.A425 / D36 2013
820.9/353
The melancholy assemblage affect and epistemology in the English Renaissance / [electronic resource] : Drew Daniel. - New York : Fordham University Press, 2013. - 1 online resource (pages cm)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"This book considers melancholy as an "assemblage," as a network of dynamic, interpretive relationships between persons, bodies, texts, spaces, structures, and things. In doing so, it parts ways with past interpretations of melancholy. Tilting the English Renaissance against the present moment, Daniel argues that the basic disciplinary tension between medicine and philosophy persists within contemporary debates about emotional embodiment. To make this case, the book binds together the paintings of Nicholas Hilliard and Isaac Oliver, the drama of Shakespeare, the prose of Burton, and the poetry of Milton. Crossing borders and periods, Daniel combines recent theories which have--until now--been regarded as incongruous by their respective advocates. Asking fundamental questions about how the experience of emotion produces community, the book will be of interest to scholars of early modern literature, psychoanalysis, the affective turn, and continental philosophy"--
9780823251292
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Shakespeare.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General.
Renaissance--England.
Science--Philosophy.
Science in literature.
Art and literature--History.--Great Britain
Literature and science--History.--Great Britain
Knowledge, Theory of, in literature.
Affect (Psychology) in literature.
English literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.--Early modern, 1500-1700
Electronic books.
PR421.A425 / D36 2013
820.9/353