| Description |
1 online resource (x, 368 pages). |
| Series |
Figurae |
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Figurae (Stanford, Calif.)
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-351) and index. |
| Contents |
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." |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
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| Summary |
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. |
| Subject |
Love in literature.
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Lovesickness in literature.
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Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism.
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European literature -- Renaissance, 1450-1600 -- History and criticism.
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TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Literary.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
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European literature -- Renaissance.
(OCoLC)fst01710967
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Literature, Medieval. (OCoLC)fst01000151
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Love in literature. (OCoLC)fst01002808
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Lovesickness in literature. (OCoLC)fst01003082
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Bellettrie.
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Liefdesverdriet.
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Melancholie.
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Medische aspecten.
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| Chronological Term |
1450-1600
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Wells, Marion A. Secret wound. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2007 (DLC) 2005035933 |
| ISBN |
9781435608795 (electronic bk.) |
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1435608798 (electronic bk.) |
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