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" Melancholy experience in literature of the long eighteenth century : "
by Allan Ingram ... [and others]
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BL
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710996
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b533185
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Melancholy experience in literature of the long eighteenth century : : before depression, 1660-1800 /\ by Allan Ingram ... [and others]
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Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ;New York :: Palgrave Macmillan,, 2011
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ix, 246 pages,; 23 cm
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0230246311
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: 9780230246317
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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Machine generated contents note: -- Acknowledgements -- Author Biographies -- Introduction: Depression Before Depression; A.Ingram and S.Sim -- Fashionable Melancholy; C.Lawlor -- Philosophical Melancholy; R.Terry -- Strange contrarys : Figures of Melancholy in Eighteenth-Century Poetry; J.Baker -- Despair, Melancholy and the Novel; S.Sim -- Melancholy, Medicine, Mad Moon and Marriage: Autobiographical Expressions of Depression; L.Wetherall-Dickson -- Deciphering Difference: A Study in Medical Literacy; A.Ingram -- Bibliography -- Index
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| Abstract
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"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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Depression, Mental-- History-- 17th century
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Depression, Mental-- History-- 18th century
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Depression, Mental, in literature
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English literature-- 18th century-- History and criticism
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English literature-- Early modern, 1500-1700-- History and criticism
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Melancholy in literature
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Mental illness in literature
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| Dewey Classification
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820.9/005
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PR448.M44M45 2011
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Ingram, Allan
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