Title Melancholy Assemblage : Affect and Epistemology in the English Renaissance

Published Bronx : Fordham University Press, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (329 pages) Contents Contents -- Illustrations -- Ac know ledg ments -- Introduction -- 1. From DÃ?rerâ€?s Angel to Harlowâ€?s Monkey -- Hanging the Head -- Melancholy and/as Posture from DÃ?rer to Oliver -- Walter Benjamin on the “Ideaâ€? as Confi guration -- The Shield as Impresa of Physical Vulnerability -- A Pose Is a Pose Is a Pose -- 2. Three Hundred Years Out of Fashion -- Aff ect and Aff ectation -- Don Adriano de Armado, Walter Benjamin, and the Dialectical Theater of Melancholy Fashion -- Biron, Sigmund Freud, and Melancholy Wit €œYou That Way. We This Way.â€?: Melancholy Transmission from Male Minds to Female Bodies3. Let Me Have Judgment, and the Jew His Will -- Weariness and Wariness -- The “Standing Poolâ€? of Melancholy -- Antonio as the Subject of Masochistic Fantasy -- Sacrifi ce, Subjection, and the Melancholy Pound of Flesh -- 4. That Within Which Passes Show -- Mourning, Melancholy/Melancholia, and “the Hamlet mysteryâ€? -- “Less than kin and more than kindâ€?: Hamletâ€?s Melancholic Aside -- Seeing Things and Hearing Voices: Epistemology, Spectatorship, Audition €œAudience to this Actâ€?: Assembling the Witnesses5. Rhapsodies of Rags -- A Melancholy Stereoscope -- Burton Criticism as Melancholy Ruin -- Assemblage as Argument: Burton on the “Inward Causesâ€? of Melancholy -- Digression as Argument: Benjamin on the “Mosaicâ€? of Melancholy -- 6. My Self, My Sepulcher -- “Humours Blackâ€?: Samson as Melancholic -- “O blot to honor and religionâ€?: Masculinity and Eff eminacy -- “Choosing Death as Dueâ€?: Samson as Masochist -- Pathology and/or Redemption €œRousing Motionsâ€?: Aristotle, Galen, and the Materiality of EmotionAll Passion Spent? -- Epilogue Disassembling Melancholy -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index Summary 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, the book 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 William Shakespeare, the prose of Robert Burton, and the poetry of John Milton Notes Print version record Subject Affect (Psychology) in literature. Art and literature -- Great Britain -- History English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc Knowledge, Theory of, in literature. Literature and science -- Great Britain -- History Renaissance -- England Science in literature. Science -- Philosophy. LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. LITERARY CRITICISM / Shakespeare. LITERARY CRITICISM / General. Science -- Philosophy. Science in literature. Renaissance. Literature and science. Knowledge, Theory of, in literature. Art and literature. Affect (Psychology) in literature. Great Britain. England. Genre/Form History. Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780823251292 0823251292

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