Description
Robert Burton and the Transformative Powers of Melancholy
Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity Series
Author: Shirilan Stephanie
Language: EnglishSubjects for Robert Burton and the Transformative Powers of Melancholy:
Keywords
Young Men; Le Blon; Animal Kingdom; Jan Huyghen Van Linschoten; Wolfgang Neuber; Dead Man; Hydraulic Transformation; Democritus Junior; Melancholic Genius; Melancholic Imagination; Delusional Melancholics; Spiritual Melancholic; Optick Glasse; Religious Melancholy; Felix Platter; Princeton University Art Museum; Problem XXX; University Art Museum; Spiritual Melancholy; Disorderly Order; Debora Shuger; Efficacious Purposes; Levinus Lemnius; Melancholic Suffering; Omne Tulit Punctum
Publication date: 12-2019
· 15.6x23.4 cm · Paperback
Publication date: 11-2015
· 15.6x23.4 cm · Hardback
Description
/li>Contents
/li>Biography
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Introduction
1 Democritus Junior: Discerning Care
2 Heroic Hypochondria and the Sympathetic Delusions of Melancholy
3 Exhilirating the Spirits: Study as Cure for Scholarly Melancholy
4 "Exonerating" Melancholy
Epilogue: Loving Burton, or Burton for Amateurs
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