The Melancholy Assemblage: Affect and Epistemology in the English Renaissance
Drew Daniel
Abstract
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, the book argues that the basic disciplinary tension between medicine and philosophy persists within contemporary debates about emotional embodiment. To make this case, the book binds together the paintings of Nicholas Hilliard and Isaac Oliver, the drama of William Shakespeare, the prose of Robert Burton ... More
Keywords: melancholy, assemblage, interpretive relationships, English Renaissance, emotional embodiment, Nicholas Hilliard, Isaac Oliver, William Shakespeare, community, early modern literature
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2013 | Print ISBN-13: 9780823251278 |
| Published to Fordham Scholarship Online: September 2013 | DOI:10.5422/fordham/9780823251278.001.0001 |
