Burton's Anatomy and the Intellectual Traditions of Melancholy
This article discusses the ways in which Robert Burton’s Anatomy of Melancholy (1621) inherited and transformed the various European traditions of thinking about melancholy. It divides these traditions into four categories—medical, natural-philosophical, moral-philosophical, and theological—and surv...
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| Language: | English |
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Université du Sud Toulon-Var
2012-12-01
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| Series: | Babel: Littératures Plurielles |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/babel/2078 |