Politics of Melancholy from Spenser to Milton
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civil war England
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factionalism in society
Foucault's Genealogical Studies
Foucault’s Genealogical Studies
Hideous Dream
humoral psychology
Il Penseroso
literary representations of disease
melancholy and governance studies
Meric Casaubon
Naturall Means
Pictoribus Atque Poetis
political disorder theory
Religious Melancholy
Robert Burtons
Samson Agonistes
Samsons Death
Samsons Final Act
Scornful Jester
Thomas Combers
Van Der Noot
Vindiciae Contra Tyrannos
Young Man
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- ISBN 9780415976282
- Weight: 680g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 13 Jan 2006
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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
