Before Depression
1660 - 1800

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Before Depression: the Representation and Culture of Depression in Britain and Europe, 1660-1800

Figures et culture de la dépression en Grande-Bretagne et en Europe, 1660-1800

Introduction by Clark Lawlor

Nathaniel Cotton and James Beattie: Graveyard Verse as Psychological Therapy for the Melancholy

Michelle Faubert (Manitoba)

"Contraries often prove Remedies" - Laughter as a Cure for Melancholy in Eighteenth-Century Medicine

Charlotte Holden (Northumbria)

Dr Brown's Cure for Depression: a Paper on The Cure of Saul, an Oratorio by Dr John Brown, 1715-66

William Roberts (Independent Scholar)

Medicina Musica: un remède à la mélancholie des rois?

Sophie Vasset (Paris 7)

Depressive Patterns and Textual Solutions in Seventeenth-Century Women's Autobiography

Ramona Wray (Queen's, Belfast)

Creative Hysteria and the Intellectual Woman of Feeling

Heather Meek ( University of Regina )

Is 'Before Depression' Before Paranoia?

Melinda Alliker Rabb (Brown)

Before Depression, the Very Idea: Spaces of Emergence

Jeremy Schmidt (Victoria)

The "Official" and "Unofficial" Spleen

Nigel Wood (Loughborough)

Burton and Sons: the Masks of Melancholy

Madeleine Descargues-Grant (Valenciennes)

A "Stranger to the Spleen?": Jonathan Swift and Depression

Sabine Wendel (Münster)

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Before Depression: the Representation and Culture of Depression in Britain and Europe, 1660-1800
Figures et culture de la dépression en Grande-Bretagne et en Europe, 1660-1800

Introduction by Valérie Maffre

Creative and Uncreative Gloom: Frances Burney and Alexander d'Arblay

Peter Sabor (McGill)

Johnson's 'Unhappy Valley': Melancholy in Rasselas

Diane Buie (Northumbria)

"More than tears and moonlight": Forms of melancholy mimesis after Burton

Matthew Bell (King's, London)

'A Vapour'd Muse': Figures and Voices of Melancholy in Some Eighteenth-Century Poems

John Baker (Paris 1)

Mélancolie et séduction dans quelques écrits du XVIIIe siècle

Valérie Maffre (Montpellier)

Réécritures du suicide par amour dans Pamela, Clarissa et The Wanderer

Hélène Dachez (Toulouse)

Wollstonecraft's Maria and Postpartum Depression in the Eighteenth Century

Sarah Skoronski (McGill)

"Few people can bear the unhappy": Sarah Scott and the Social Context of Depression in Millenium Hall (1762)

Pauline Morris (Northumbria)

Diagnosing Regicide: Margaret Nicholson, Madness, and Melancholy in the Eighteenth Century

Joanne Holland (McGill)

"A Lassitude of Existence Creeps Sensibly upon Me": Gloominess, Low spirits and Depression at the Court of George III

Mascha Gemmeke (Griefswald)