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The secret wound : love-melancholy and early modern romance

Offers a reading of early modern romance in the light of historically contemporary accounts of mind, and specifically the medical tradition of love-melancholy. This book establishes a detailed historical basis for investigating the psychological structure of romance. It investigates the central critical problem of early modern subjectivity
eBook, English, 2007
Stanford University Press, Stanford, Calif., 2007
Electronic books
1 online resource (x, 368 pages)
9781435608795, 9780804767446, 1435608798, 0804767440
290565461
Introduction: Love-melancholy and early modern romance
From Amor hereos to love-melancholy: a medico-literary history
"Vulnus caecum": the secret wound of love-melancholy
"Solvite me": epic, romance, and the poetics of melancholy in Orlando Furioso
"Il primo error": love-melancholy in Gerusalemme Liberata
Rewriting romance: Arthur's "secret wound" and the "lamentable lay" of elegy
"The love-sicke hart": female love-melancholy and the romance quest
Conclusion: La Belle Dame Sans Merci: romance and the dream of "language strange."
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010
English
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