Before Depression
1660 - 1800

"MELANCHOLY EXPERIENCE IN LITERATURE OF THE LONG EIGHTEENTH CENTURY, Before Depression"

Introduction: Depression Before Depression

Chapter 1: Fashionable Melancholy

Chapter 2: Philosophical Melancholy

Chapter 3: 'Strange Contrarys': Figures of Melancholy in Eighteenth-Century Poetry

Chapter 4: Despair, Melancholy and the Novel

Chapter 5: Melancholy, Medicine, Mad Moon and Marriage: Autobiographical Expressions of Depression

Chapter 6: Deciphering Difference: A Study in Medical Literacy

'Demonstrating what literature of the past has to teach us about our own approach to healing depression, the book as a whole will be useful to academics and non-academics interested in the heritage of depressive illnesses, to individuals suffering from depression, and to physicians and psychologists wishing to situate historically their own practices.' Elizabeth Dolan, Review of English Studies