The Politics of Melancholy from Spenser to Milton
-
- Hardcover
- Taschenbuch ausgewählt
- eBook
-
Sprache:Englisch
Fr. 112.00
inkl. gesetzl. MwSt.,
Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
16.06.2009
Verlag
Taylor and FrancisSeitenzahl
274
Maße (L/B/H)
22.9/15.2/1.7 cm
Gewicht
453 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-0-415-80291-8
During the so-called Age of Melancholy, many writers invoked both traditional and new conceptualizations of the disease in order to account for various types of social turbulence, ranging from discontent and factionalism to civil war. Writing about melancholy became a way to explore both the causes and preventions of political disorder, on both specific and abstract levels. Thus, at one and the same moment, a writer could write about melancholy to discuss specific and ongoing political crises and to explore more generally the principles which generate political conflicts in the first place. In the course of developing a traditional discourse of melancholy of its own, English writers appropriated representations of the disease - often ineffectively - in order to account for the political turbulence during the civil war and Interregnum periods
Noch keine Bewertungen vorhanden
Verfassen Sie die erste Bewertung zu diesem Artikel
Helfen Sie anderen Kundinnen und Kunden durch Ihre Meinung.