The Poetics of Melancholy in Early Modern England explores how
attitudes toward, and explanations of, human emotions change in
England during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century.
Typically categorized as 'literary' writers Edmund Spenser, John
Donne, Robert Burton and John Milton were all active in the
period's reappraisal of the single emotion that, due to their
efforts, would become the passion most associated with the writing
life: melancholy. By emphasising the shared concerns of the
'non-literary' and 'literary' texts produced by these figures,
Douglas Trevor asserts that quintessentially 'scholarly' practices
such as glossing texts and appending sidenotes shape the methods by
which these same writers come to analyse their own moods. He also
examines early modern medical texts, dramaturgical representations
of learned depressives such as Shakespeare's Hamlet, and the
opposition to materialistic accounts of the passions voiced by
Neoplatonists such as Edmund Spenser.
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