Melancholy Experience in Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century: Before Depression, 1660-1800 by Leigh Wetherall Dickson
English | 12 Apr. 2011 | ISBN: 0230246311 | 256 Pages | PDF | 5 MB
English | 12 Apr. 2011 | ISBN: 0230246311 | 256 Pages | PDF | 5 MB
This book arises out of a major research project, funded by the Leverhulme Trust, on depression in the eighteenth century. It discusses the experience of depressive states both in terms of existing modes of thought and expression, and in terms of individual attempts to describe and live with suffering.