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The Melancholy Assemblage: Affect and Epistemology in the English Renaissance (2013)

Daniel, Drew (Author)

Fordham University Press
Publication date: 2013
Language: English

ISBN: 9780823251278

Publication Date: 2013
Physical Details: 328

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Epistemology Psychology Science and literature Emotions; passions Mind and body Melancholy Philosophy of medicine Renaissance England

This book considers melancholy as an “assemblage,” as a network of dynamic, interpretive relationships between persons, bodies, texts, spaces, structures, and things. In doing so, it parts ways with past interpretations of melancholy. Tilting the English Renaissance against the present moment, Daniel argues that the basic disciplinary tension between medicine and philosophy persists within contemporary debates about emotional embodiment. To make this case, the book binds together the paintings of Nicholas Hilliard and Isaac Oliver, the drama of Shakespeare, the prose of Burton, and the poetry of Milton. Crossing borders and periods, Daniel combines recent theories that have―until now―been regarded as incongruous by their respective advocates. Asking fundamental questions about how the experience of emotion produces community, the book will be of interest to scholars of early modern literature, psychoanalysis, the affective turn, and continental philosophy.

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Review Timothy Barr (2019) Review of "Affective Mapping: Melancholia and the Politics of Modernism". Journal of the History of Ideas (pp. 313-332). unapi

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