| Description |
271 pages |
| Contents |
Melancholia as a sense of loss : an introduction / Martin Middeke and Christina Wald -- Yet once more : melancholia and amnesia in Milton's Lycidas / Tobias Döring -- Male pregnancies, virgin births, monsters of the mind : early modern melancholia and (cross-)gendered constructions of creativity / Anne-Julia Zwierlein -- Mourning and melancholia in England and its transatlantic colonies : examples of seventeenth-century female appropriations / Gabriele Rippl -- "To pictur'd regions and imagin'd worlds" : female melancholic writing and the poems of Mary Leapor / Sabine Blackmore -- "The dark bottomless abyss, that lies under our feet, had yawned open" : the rescission of the male melancholic genius in Carlyle's Sartor Resartus / Felix Sprang -- "They came, they cut away my tallest pines" : Tennyson and the melancholy of modernity / Andrew Gibson -- The melancholy of history : the French Revolution and European historiography / Peter Fritzsche -- Commercialising melancholy : the National Trust / Christoph Ehland and Stephan Kohl -- Melancholia in the South Pacific : the strange case of Robert Louis Stevenson's travel writing / Kirsten Sandrock -- The secret of the father in the colonial secret : Rosa Praed's Weird Melancholy / Jennifer Rutherford -- Modernist melancholia and time : the synchronicity of the non-synchronic in Freud, Tylor and Conrad / Anne Enderwitz -- The closed circle of Britain's postcolonial melancholia / Paul Gilroy -- Working at the seams : Howard Barker's Tragic Trauerspiel / Elizabeth Sakellaridou -- Melancholia and mourning animals / Juliana Schiesari -- Melancholic consolation? : J. M. Coetzee, irony, and the aesthetics of the sublime / Johan Geertsema -- The novel after melancholia : on Tom McCarthy's Remainder and David Mitchell's Ghostwritten / Pieter Vermeulen |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Subject |
English literature -- History and criticism.
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Melancholy in literature.
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Melancholy.
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| Author |
Middeke, M. (Martin), 1948-
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Wald, Christina, 1976-
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| LC no. |
2011021108 |
| ISBN |
9780230293724 (hardback) |
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0230293727 (hardback) |
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