Melancholy experience in literature of the long eighteenth century

By Allan Ingram

Subjects: Melancholy in literature, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Depression, Mental illness in literature, Melancholie, Depression, Mental, in literature, Mental Depression, Literature, modern, history and criticism, 18th century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, Mentally Ill Persons, History and criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, English literature, Engels, Medicine in Literature, History, History, 18th Century, Mental Disorders, Bellettrie

Description: "Arising from a research project on depression in the eighteenth century, this book discusses the experience of depressive states both in terms of existing modes of thought and expression, and of attempts to describe and live with suffering. It also asks what present-day society can learn about depression from the eighteenth-century experience"--