[PDF] The Anatomy Of Melancholy eBook

Author : Mary Ann Lund
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 24,23 MB
Release : 2021-02-25
Category : History
ISBN : 1108838847

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400 years after The Anatomy of Melancholy, this book guides readers through Renaissance medicine's disease of the mind.

Author : Robert Burton
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 12,93 MB
Release : 2012-12-03
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0486148580

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One of the richest books in the English language, this systematized medical treatise on morbid mental states also features a compendium of memorable utterances on the human condition, compiled from classical, scholastic, and contemporary sources.

Author : William E. Engel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 40,35 MB
Release : 2016-08-18
Category : Art
ISBN : 1107086817

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Anthology of a selection of early modern works on memory.

Author : Shelley Jackson
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 36,3 MB
Release : 2010-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307773930

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Amusing, touching, and unsettling, The Melancholy of Anatomy is that most wonderful of fictions, one that makes us see the world in an entirely new light. Here is the body turned inside out, its members set free, its humors released upon the world. Hearts bigger than planets devour light and warp the space around them; the city of London has a menstrual flow that gushes through its underground pipes; gobs of phlegm cement friendships and sexual relationships; and a floating fetus larger than a human becomes the new town pastor. In this debut story collection, Shelley Jackson rewrites our private passages, and translates the dumb show of the body into prose as gorgeous as it is unhygienic.

Author : Robert Burton
Publisher : Penguin Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 38,58 MB
Release : 2023-07-06
Category :
ISBN : 9780141192284

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A new Penguin Classics edition of Burton's masterpiece - ostensibly a guidebook to melancholia or depression, in reality an all-encompassing examination of the human condition. The Anatomy of Melancholy is the vast and only work by Robert Burton, the 17th-century English priest and scholar. It 'opens and cuts up' the condition of melancholy, or depression as we know it today, and in doing so explores a dizzying range of additional topics, including goblins, beauty, the geography of America, digestion, the passions, alcohol and kissing. Burton believed that reading was a cure for melancholy, and so the book itself - one of the most unique and uncategorisable works of all time - can be seen as a tonic for the very condition it describes.

Author : Mary Ann Lund
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 42,74 MB
Release : 2010-01-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521190509

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Lund demonstrates the significance of Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy within early modern literary culture, covering religious and medical issues.

Author : Robert Burton
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 36,7 MB
Release : 2008-08-07
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0141963336

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Not simply an investigation into melancholy, these unique essays form part of a panoramic celebration of human behaviour from the time of the ancients to the Renaissance. God, devils, old age, diet, drunkenness, love and beauty are each given equal consideration in this all-encompassing examination of the human condition. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves – and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives – and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are.