The melancholy assemblage [electronic resource] : affect and epistemology in the English Renaissance / Drew Daniel.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Fordham University Press, 2013. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (pages cm)ISBN:- 9780823251292
- LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- LITERARY CRITICISM / Shakespeare
- LITERARY CRITICISM / General
- Renaissance -- England
- Science -- Philosophy
- Science in literature
- Art and literature -- Great Britain -- History
- Literature and science -- Great Britain -- History
- Knowledge, Theory of, in literature
- Affect (Psychology) in literature
- English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc
- 820.9/353 23
- PR421.A425 D36 2013
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"-- Provided by publisher.
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