The secret wound love-melancholy and early modern romance
Offers a reading of early modern romance in the light of historically contemporary accounts of mind, and specifically the medical tradition of love-melancholy. This book establishes a detailed historical basis for investigating the psychological structure of romance. It investigates the central crit...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Stanford, Calif. :
Stanford University Press
2007.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b31649567*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Love-melancholy and early modern romance
- From Amor hereos to love-melancholy: a medico-literary history
- "Vulnus caecum": the secret wound of love-melancholy
- "Solvite me": epic, romance, and the poetics of melancholy in Orlando Furioso
- "Il primo error": love-melancholy in Gerusalemme Liberata
- Rewriting romance: Arthur's "secret wound" and the "lamentable lay" of elegy
- "The love-sicke hart": female love-melancholy and the romance quest
- Conclusion: La Belle Dame Sans Merci: romance and the dream of "language strange."
