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The anatomy of melancholy, what it is, with all the kinds, causes, symptomes, prognostics, and several curses of it. In three paritions. With their several sections, members and subsections, philosophically, medically, historically, opened and cut up (Vol (Hardcover)
Robert Burton
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The Anatomy Of Melancholy - What It Is, With All The Kinds, Causes, Symptoms, Prognostics, And Several Cures Of It: In Three Partitions, With Their Several Sections, Members, And Subsections, Philosophically, Medically, Historically Opened And Cut Up (Hardcover)
Robert Burton
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This is the second volume of the Clarendon edition of Robert
Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy, containing the text and textual
apparatus for `The Second Partition'. A third volume of text and
two volumes of commentary will follow. In `The Second Partition',
Burton treats the spectrum of cures for melancholy, generally
following the organization and analysis of symptoms and causes of
the disorder as presented in `The First Partition'. Here is found
Burton's remarkable synthesis of cultural geography and climatic
influences on temperament in the `Digression of the Ayre' and his
long excursion in the consolatio tradition. The final two sections
of the partition present remedies from physics and surgery.
Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy is one of the last great
works of English prose to have remained unedited. The present
volume inaugurates an authoritative edition of the work, which is
being prepared by scholars on both sides of the Atlantic. It will
be followed by two further volumes of text with textual apparatus,
and two volumes of commentary. Burton concentrated a lifetime of
inquiry into the Anatomy, describing and analysing melancholy and
its causes - devoting especial attention to love and religion - and
recording possible cures. Primarily a scholarly study of morbid
psychology, it is also a compendium of curious facts and anecdotes,
and combines seriousness of purpose with a marked satirical vein.
First published in 1621, it was a great success: four more editions
were published in Burton's lifetime, in each of which new material
was added, and a sixth, containing his final revisions, was
published in in 1651, eleven years after his death. The textual
complexity and Burton's extraordinary range of reference have
hitherto deterred editors: this is the first scholarly edition to
appear. The text is based on a complete collation of all six
authoritative editions.
One of the major documents of modern European civilization, Robert
Burton's astounding compendium, a survey of melancholy in all its
myriad forms, has invited nothing but superlatives since its
publication in the seventeenth century. Lewellyn Powys called it
"the greatest work of prose of the greatest period of English
prose-writing," while the celebrated surgeon William Osler declared
it the greatest of medical treatises. And Dr. Johnson, Boswell
reports, said it was the only book that he rose early in the
morning to read with pleasure. In this surprisingly compact and
elegant new edition, Burton's spectacular verbal labyrinth is sure
to delight, instruct, and divert today's readers as much as it has
those of the past four centuries.
This is the third and final text volume of the Clarendon edition of
Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy. It contains `The Third
Partition', `The Table', edited from 1624-1651 editions, and their
textual apparatus, and an Index of Persons. Also included are three
appendices: `The Conclusion of the Author to the Reader', which
occurs only in the 1621 edition, a list of stop-press corrections
to the 1632 edition, and the edited Synoptic Tables. The Third
Partition is made up of two grand digressions which conclude
Burton's earlier arguments on the causes and cures of melancholy.
In the first digression he anatomizes love melancholy, its kinds,
causes and symptom, and cures. No one up to his time had dealt more
elaborately, or more thoroughly, with the components of love.
Certain sections, `Beauty a Cause', of `Jealousie, his
AEquivocations, Name, Definition, Extent ...' are no less engaging
today than when they were first written. In the second, religious
melancholy, he surveys the aberrations from true religious
commitment which are the cause of this melancholy. To Burton the
divine, no other manifestation of melancholy was as serious as
this, and his words of comfort, consolation, and encouragement, are
a fitting end to his dissection of a disease that all are heir to.
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