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As a psychiatric term 'depression' dates back only as far as the
mid-nineteenth century. Before then a wide range of terms were
used: 'melancholy' carried enormous weight, and was one of the two
confirmed forms of eighteenth-century insanity. This four-volume
set is the first large-scale study of depression across an
extensive period.
As a psychiatric term 'depression' dates back only as far as the
mid-nineteenth century. Before then a wide range of terms were
used: 'melancholy' carried enormous weight, and was one of the two
confirmed forms of eighteenth-century insanity. This four-volume
set is the first large-scale study of depression across an
extensive period.
As a psychiatric term 'depression' dates back only as far as the
mid-nineteenth century. Before then a wide range of terms were
used: 'melancholy' carried enormous weight, and was one of the two
confirmed forms of eighteenth-century insanity. This four-volume
set is the first large-scale study of depression across an
extensive period.
As a psychiatric term 'depression' dates back only as far as the
mid-nineteenth century. Before then a wide range of terms were
used: 'melancholy' carried enormous weight, and was one of the two
confirmed forms of eighteenth-century insanity. This four-volume
set is the first large-scale study of depression across an
extensive period.
Offers the works of Lady Caroline Lamb (1785-1828), the late
Romantic-era novelist most famous for her affair with Lord Byron.
Presenting Lamb's works in a scholarly format, this book situates
her literary achievements within the context of her Whig
allegiances, her sense of noblesse oblige and her promotion of
aristocratic reform.
Offers the works of Lady Caroline Lamb (1785-1828), the late
Romantic-era novelist most famous for her affair with Lord Byron.
Presenting Lamb's works in a scholarly format, this book situates
her literary achievements within the context of her Whig
allegiances, her sense of noblesse oblige and her promotion of
aristocratic reform.
Offers the works of Lady Caroline Lamb (1785-1828), the late
Romantic-era novelist most famous for her affair with Lord Byron.
Presenting Lamb's works in a scholarly format, this book situates
her literary achievements within the context of her Whig
allegiances, her sense of noblesse oblige and her promotion of
aristocratic reform.
This collection examines different aspects of attitudes towards
disease and death in writing of the long eighteenth century. Taking
three conditions as examples - ennui, sexual diseases and
infectious diseases - as well as death itself, contributors explore
the ways in which writing of the period placed them within a
borderland between fashionability and unfashionability, relating
them to current social fashions and trends. These essays also look
at ways in which diseases were fashioned into bearing cultural,
moral, religious and even political meaning. Works of literature
are used as evidence, but also medical writings, personal
correspondence and diaries. Diseases or conditions subject to
scrutiny include syphilis, male impotence, plague, smallpox and
consumption. Death, finally, is looked at both in terms of writers
constructing meanings within death and of the fashioning of
posthumous reputation.
Arising from a research project on depression in the eighteenth
century, this book discusses the experience of depressive states
both in terms of existing modes of thought and expression, and of
attempts to describe and live with suffering. It also asks what
present-day society can learn about depression from the
eighteenth-century experience.
This collection examines different aspects of attitudes towards
disease and death in writing of the long eighteenth century. Taking
three conditions as examples - ennui, sexual diseases and
infectious diseases - as well as death itself, contributors explore
the ways in which writing of the period placed them within a
borderland between fashionability and unfashionability, relating
them to current social fashions and trends. These essays also look
at ways in which diseases were fashioned into bearing cultural,
moral, religious and even political meaning. Works of literature
are used as evidence, but also medical writings, personal
correspondence and diaries. Diseases or conditions subject to
scrutiny include syphilis, male impotence, plague, smallpox and
consumption. Death, finally, is looked at both in terms of writers
constructing meanings within death and of the fashioning of
posthumous reputation.
Arising from a research project on depression in the eighteenth
century, this book discusses the experience of depressive states
both in terms of existing modes of thought and expression, and of
attempts to describe and live with suffering. It also asks what
present-day society can learn about depression from the
eighteenth-century experience.
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