TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lund,Mary Ann
TI  - Melancholy, medicine and religion in early modern England: reading "The anatomy of melancholy" 
SN  - 9780511672071
AV  - PR2224 .L86 2010eb
U1  - 828/.309 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Cambridge, New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Burton, Robert,
KW  - Anatomy of melancholy (Burton, Robert)
KW  - fast
KW  - Melancholy in literature
KW  - Mind and body in literature
KW  - Bibliotherapy
KW  - England
KW  - History
KW  - 17th century
KW  - Mind and body therapies
KW  - Literature and medicine
KW  - Medicine
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Body and soul in literature
KW  - Mélancolie dans la littérature
KW  - Esprit et corps dans la littérature
KW  - Bibliothérapie
KW  - Angleterre
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 17e siècle
KW  - Thérapies corporelles
KW  - Littérature et médecine
KW  - Médecine
KW  - Aspect religieux
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM
KW  - European
KW  - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction : Zisca's drum : reading and cure -- Imagining readings -- The cure of despair : reading the end of The anatomy of melancholy -- Printed therapeutics : The anatomy of Melancholy and early modern medical writing -- The whole physician -- Speaking out of experience -- The structure of melancholy : from cause to cure
N2  - The Anatomy of Melancholy, first published in 1621, is one of the greatest works of early modern English prose writing, yet it has received little substantial literary criticism in recent years. This study situates Robert Burton's complex work within three related contexts: religious, medical and literary/rhetorical. Analysing Burton's claim that his text should have curative effects on his melancholic readership, it examines the authorial construction of the reading process in the context of other early modern writing, both canonical and non-canonical, providing a new approach towards the emerging field of the history of reading. Lund responds to Burton's assertion that melancholy is an affliction of body and soul which requires both a spiritual and a corporal cure, exploring the theological complexion of Burton's writing in relation to English religious discourse of the early seventeenth century, and the status of his work as a medical text
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