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The Melancholy Assemblage: Affect and Epistemology in the English Renaissance

The Melancholy Assemblage: Affect and Epistemology in the English Renaissance
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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.
Country USA
Brand Fordham University Press
Manufacturer Fordham University Press
Binding Paperback
ReleaseDate 2013-04-22
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780823251285

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