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Robert Burton
A guidebook to melancholia or depression, and a masterly, all-encompassing examination of the human condition
The Anatomy of Melancholy is the vast and only work by Robert Burton, the seventeenth-century…
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Stephanie Shirilan
In this study, Stephanie Shirilan unearths and contextualizes the celebration of the powers of the melancholic imagination in Burton’s Anatomy of Melancholy, thus rescuing it from the overly literal readings…
Angus Gowland (University College London)
Approaching the Anatomy of Melancholy as the culmination of early modern medical, philosophical and spiritual inquiry about melancholy, Gowland examines how Robert Burton exploited the moral psychology central to the…
Susan Wells (Temple University (Emerita))
Illustrates how Oxford scholar Robert Burton used the resources available to a seventeenth century academic: genres and languages, as well as academic disciplines such as medicine and rhetoric. Demonstrates how…
The Anatomy of Melancholy, - what it is, with all the kinds, causes, symptoms, prognostics, and several cures of it. Vol. 3 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original…
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the…
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the…
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the "public…
Due to the very old age and scarcity of this book, many of the pages may be hard to read due to the blurring of the original text.
The Anatomy of Melancholy - what it is, with all the kinds, causes, symptons, prognostics, and several cures of it - in three partitions with their several sections, members, and…
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either…
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1922 Edition.
Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy is a classic study of the human condition, and now Melancholy Anatomised offers a condensed and accessible version of Burton's work. This book provides a…
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the public…
This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the…
One of the major documents of modern European civilization, Robert Burton’s astounding compendium, a survey of melancholy in all its myriad forms, has invited nothing but superlatives since its publication…
The Anatomy of Melancholy is, quite self-consciously, the book to end all books. The immensely widely read Robert Burton compiled it from the books that existed in a 17th-century library…
