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...
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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. "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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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Authors' Biographies; Introduction: Depression before Depression; 1 Fashionable Melancholy; 2 Philosophical Melancholy; 3 'Strange Contrarys': Figures of Melancholy in Eighteenth-Century Poetry; 4 Despair, Melancholy and the Novel; 5 Melancholy, Medicine, Mad Moon and Marriage: Autobiographical Expressions of Depression; 6 Deciphering Difference: A Study in Medical Literacy; Notes; Bibliography; Index
