Review ID: CBB359004357

Review of "Affective Mapping: Melancholia and the Politics of Modernism" (2019)

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This review essay discusses recent Anglophone research on melancholy from both historical and cultural-critical traditions. I argue that these works offer a way for reconceptualizing early modern melancholy as a problem of accounting for passions and motives. The early modern archive of melancholy can help us articulate anti-depressive melancholy as a social problematic rather than merely a personal affliction.

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Authors & Contributors
Spinney, Russell A.
Häberlen, Joachim C
Melián, Elvira M.
Davies, William
Flatley, Jonathan
Barclay, Katie
Concepts
Psychology
Emotions; passions
Melancholy
Science and society
Medicine
Depression
Time Periods
Early modern
Renaissance
18th century
17th century
Modern
Medieval
Places
England
Spain
Europe
United States
France
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