The Gendering of Melancholia

by Juliana Schiesari

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The pantheon of renowned melancholics--from Shakespeare's Hamlet to Walter Benjamin--includes no women, an absence that in Juliana Schiesari's view points less to a dearth of unhappy women in patriarchal culture than to the lack of significance accorded to women's grief. Through penetrating readings of texts from Aristotle to Kristeva, she illuminates the complex history of the symbolics of loss in Renaissance literature.

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Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0801426863

ISBN13:9780801426865

Release Date:July 1992

Publisher:Cornell University Press

Length:264 Pages

Weight:1.33 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Age Range:18 years and up

Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher

Related Subjects

Criticism & Theory Gay & Lesbian History History & Criticism Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Literature & Fiction Mental Illness Movements & Periods Renaissance

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