Binding: Hardcover
Description: A User's Guide to Melancholy takes Robert Burton's encyclopaedic masterpiece The Anatomy of Melancholy (first published in 1621) as a guide to one of the most perplexing elusive attractive and afflicting diseases of the Renaissance. Burton's Anatomy is perhaps the largest strangest and most unwieldy self - help book ever written. Engaging with the rich cultural and literary framework of melancholy this book traces its causes symptoms and cures through Burton's writing. Each chapter starts with a case study of melancholy - from the man who was afraid to urinate in case he drowned his town to the girl who purged a live eel - as a way into exploring the many facets of this mental affliction. A User's Guide to Melancholy presents in an accessible and illustrated format the colourful variety of Renaissance melancholy and contributes to contemporary discussions about wellbeing by revealing the earlier history of mental health conditions.
Title: A User's Guide To Melancholy
Author(s): Lund Mary Ann (University Of Leicester)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Barcode: 9781108838849
Pages: 268 Pages, Worked Examples Or Exercises
Publication Date: 4/1/2021
Category: History Of Science