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.
...MoreBook Lund, Mary Ann (2010) Melancholy, Medicine and Religion in Early Modern England: Reading “The Anatomy of Melancholy”.
Book Jennifer Radden (2009) Moody Minds Distempered: Essays on Melancholy and Depression.
Book Drew Daniel (2013) The Melancholy Assemblage: Affect and Epistemology in the English Renaissance.
Book Gowland, Angus (2006) The Worlds of Renaissance Melancholy: Robert Burton in Context.
Book Schmidt, Jeremy (2007) Melancholy and the Care of the Soul: Religion, Moral Philosophy and Madness in Early Modern England.
Book Lawlor, Clark (2012) From Melancholia to Prozac: A History of Depression.
Book Jean Starobinski (2012) L'Encre de la mélancolie.
Book Sara Ahmed (2010) The Promise of Happiness.
Book Jonathan Flatley (2008) Affective Mapping: Melancholia and the Politics of Modernism.
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Jonathan Flatley;
(2008)
Affective Mapping: Melancholia and the Politics of Modernism
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Erin Sullivan;
(2016)
Beyond Melancholy: Sadness and Selfhood in Renaissance England
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Drew Daniel;
(2013)
The Melancholy Assemblage: Affect and Epistemology in the English Renaissance
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Jennifer Radden;
(2009)
Moody Minds Distempered: Essays on Melancholy and Depression
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Dominik Perler;
(2018)
Feelings Transformed: Philosophical Theories of the Emotions, 1270-1670
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Rafael Mandressi;
(2016)
Affected Doctors: Dead Bodies and Affective and Professional Cultures in Early Modern European Anatomy
(/isis/citation/CBB302116927/)
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Trãni, Christophe;
Häberlen, Joachim C.;
Spinney, Russell A.;
(2014)
Opposing Scientific Cruelty: The Emotions and Sensitivities of Protestors against Experiments on Animals
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Weisser, Olivia;
(2013)
Grieved and Disordered: Gender and Emotion in Early Modern Patient Narratives
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Paster, Gail Kern;
Rowe, Katherine;
Floyd-Wilson, Mary;
(2004)
Reading the Early Modern Passions: Essays in the Cultural History of Emotion
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William Davies;
(2016)
The Happiness Industry: How the Government and Big Business Sold Us Well-Being
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Häberlen, Joachim C;
Spinney, Russell A;
(2014)
Introduction: “Emotions in Protest Movements in Europe since 1917“
(/isis/citation/CBB001550386/)
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Friedman, Lawrence Jacob;
Schreiber, Anke M.;
(2013)
The Lives of Erich Fromm: Love's Prophet
(/isis/citation/CBB001214616/)
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Jan Verplaetse;
(2020)
Wild melancholy. On the historical plausibility of a black bile theory of blood madness, or hæmatomania
(/isis/citation/CBB092538668/)
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Anne C. Vila;
(2018)
Suffering Scholars: Pathologies of the Intellectual in Enlightenment France
(/isis/citation/CBB912821366/)
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Jean Starobinski;
(2012)
L'Encre de la mélancolie
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Susan Wells;
(2019)
Robert Burton’s Rhetoric: An Anatomy of Early Modern Knowledge
(/isis/citation/CBB011654301/)
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Peset, Jose Luis;
(2014)
La melancolía en la obra de Pedro Gatell, cirujano y marino ilustrado
(/isis/citation/CBB001450515/)
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Elvira M. Melián;
(2018)
De la bilis negra a la escolástica: la Celestina como arquetipo de la melancolía maléfica en el Siglo de Oro
(/isis/citation/CBB710742736/)
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Leonel Toledo Marín;
Samuel Herrera-Balboa;
Carmen Silva;
(2018)
La agenda naturalista de las pasiones en la filosofía de la modernidad temprana
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Katie Barclay;
Peter N. Stearns;
(2022)
The Routledge History of Emotions in the Modern World
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