The Melancholy Assemblage: Affect and Epistemology in the English Renaissance

by Drew Daniel

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This book considers melancholy as an "assemblage," as a network of dynamic, interpretive relationships between persons, bodies, texts, spaces, structures, and things. In doing so, it parts ways with past interpretations of melancholy. Tilting the English Renaissance against the present moment, Daniel argues that the basic disciplinary tension between medicine and philosophy persists within contemporary debates about emotional embodiment. To make this...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0823251276

ISBN13:9780823251278

Release Date:April 2013

Publisher:Fordham University Press

Length:328 Pages

Weight:1.20 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 6.3" x 9.1"

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