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Jennifer Radden finds, within Robert Burton's religious and humoral explanations in his 'Anatomy of Melancholy', a remarkably coherent account of normal and abnormal psychology with echoes in modern day clinical psychology.

Melancholy. --- Psychology. --- Burton, Robert,

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Shortly after the debut of Exorcism in 1920, Eugene O'Neill suddenly canceled production and ordered all extant copies of the drama destroyed. For over ninety years, it was believed that the play was irrevocably lost, until it was recently discovered that O'Neill's second wife had in fact retained a copy, which she later gave to the prolific screenwriter and producer Philip Yordan. In early 2011, Yordan's widow discovered the typescript of Exorcism-complete with edits in O'Neill's own hand-in her late husband's vast trove of papers. The discovery and publication of Exorcism, a relatively early play in the O'Neill corpus, furthers our knowledge of O'Neill's dramatic development and reveals a pivotal point in the career of this great American playwright.Revolving around a suicide attempt, Exorcism draws on a dark incident in O'Neill's own life. This defining event led to his first serious efforts to write. Exorcism displays early examples of O'Neill's unparalleled skills of capturing deeply personal human drama, and it explores major themes-mourning and melancholia, addiction and sobriety, tensions between fathers and sons-that would permeate his later work. According to Yale University's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library curator Louise Bernard, who acquired the play from a New York bookseller, "Exorcism might be read as a preparatory sketch that resonates powerfully with Long Day's Journey into Night, one that brings the O'Neill family drama full circle in ways at once intimate and grandly conceived."

Melancholy --- Families --- Dejection --- Emotions --- Depression, Mental --- Sadness

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Saturn and Melancholy remains an iconic text in art history, intellectual history, and the study of culture, despite being long out of print in English. Rooted in the tradition established by Aby Warburg and the Warburg Library, this book has deeply influenced understandings of the interrelations between the humanities disciplines since its first publication in English in 1964. This new edition makes the original English text available for the first time in decades. Saturn and Melancholy offers an unparalleled inquiry into the origin and development of the philosophical and medical theories on which the ancient conception of the temperaments was based and discusses their connections to astrological and religious ideas. It also traces representations of melancholy in literature and the arts up to the sixteenth century, culminating in a landmark analysis of Dürer's most famous engraving, Melencolia I. This edition features Raymond Klibansky's additional introduction and bibliographical amendments for the German edition, as well as translations of source material and 155 original illustrations. An essay on the complex publication history of this pathbreaking project - which almost did not see the light of day - covers more than eighty years, including its more recent heritage. Making new a classic book that has been out of print for over four decades, this expanded edition presents fresh insights about Saturn and Melancholy and its legacy as a precursor to modern interdisciplinary studies.

Melancholy. --- Human beings --- Effect of Saturn on.

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Patricia Vicari demonstrates Burton's control over rhetorical strategies and selection of materials in one of the great prose works of the English Renaissance, The Anatomy of Melancholy. She argues that Burton's aim of curing melancholy is both pastoral and therapeutic, since melancholy is both a disease and the state of unregeneracy, but the ultimate authorial presence is that of the preacher trying to bring about conversion. One of his major strategies is to disguise that presence. Throughout much of the book attention is directed toward worldly matters and secular knowledge. The immediate authorial presence therefor is that of 'Robert the experienced,' another victim of melancholy, offering the record of his own self-cure as a main persuasive tactic. Vicari examines the kinds of knowledges that Burton exhibits to the reader in three chapters dealing with nature, God, and man. In each Vicari singles out for more detailed discussion special problems or topics that were timely or of particular interest to Burton. She locates Burton's reading and opinions within the general state of knowledge about them. Finally, she examines his presentation of this knowledge in his own book. Burton's book, Vicari argues, is neither a structured treatise nor a self-indulgent romp, but a fairly well controlled instrument of persuasion, a swollen sermon. Not all is controlled: Burton's notorious self-contradictions, for example, are often due in advertence and the pitfalls of his method of composition. His personality, too, shapes his writing, and the experience of bitterness and frustration, out of which his book was born - not to mention the ethos of charity and benignity appropriate to a preacher - sometimes unsettles his aim. But on the whole, Vicari maintains, the Anatomy is a coherent and deliberate rhetorical process, an original and appropriate adaptation of homiletic rhetoric.

Burton, Robert, --- Anatomy of melancholy (Burton, Robert)

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Kulturell kodierte Gefühle haben in vielfacher Weise strukturierende Eigenschaften für Individuen und ihre Gesellschaft. Die Bedeutung dieser Emotionskodes ist bisher noch wenig erforscht und zugleich ein ertragreiches Feld der modernen Kulturwissenschaft. Diese Studie widmet sich der Kultivierung sanfter Melancholie im 18. Jahrhundert aus Sicht einer literaturwissenschaftlich gelagerten Emotionsforschung, um der vermeintlich allein repressiven Melancholie im Zeitalter der Aufklärung positive Effekte und Ziele zur Seite zu stellen. Im Zentrum stehen englische und deutsche Texte der Lyrik, Epik und Prosa zwischen 1720 und 1785. Die Analyse ihrer Emotionalisierungsstrategien in Emotionskodes legt eine sakrale und säkulare Verbreitung sanfter Melancholie dar, die die Entwicklung eines individuellen Fühlens und damit Bewertens in hohem Maße förderte. Sanfte Melancholie wurde zum Einsatz gebracht, um Leserinnen und Leser emotional zu formen, ihnen Sprachfähigkeit über Phänomene zu geben und schließlich ihre emotionale Autonomie zu bekräftigen.

English literature --- German literature --- Melancholy in literature. --- Emotions in literature. --- Enlightenment --- History and criticism. --- Enlightenment. --- emotion. --- melancholy. --- sensitivity.