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STUDIES IN THE LITERARY IMAGINATION

Contents

Issue 1 (Spring 2011): Creative Melancholy / Melancholy Creativity

'Introduction' by Professor Richard Terry (Northumbria University)

Professor Michael O'Neill (Durham University), '"Anxious Cares": From Pope's Spleen to Coleridge's Depression'

Professor Allan Ingram (Northumbria University), '"Mere Despair": Alexander Pope and the Death of Hope'

Professor Peter Wagner (University of Koblenz-Landau), 'Engraving the 18th-Century Blues: Hogarth's Representation of Depression'

Professor Nigel Wood (University of Loughborough), 'The English Malady through Irish Eyes: Goldsmith as an honorary Englishman'

Professor Serge Soupel (retired scholar), 'Samuel Johnson and Depression'

Dr. Neil Vickers (King's College, London), Coleridge's 'Melancholy'

Issue 2 (Fall 2011): Diagnosis, Treatment, Suicide

'Introduction' by Professor Richard Terry (Northumbria University)

Dr. Stephen Bending (Southampton University), 'Depression and Gardens'

Professor Elaine Hobby (University of Loughborough), '"As melancholy as a sick Parrot": Depressed (?) Women at the Beginning of the Long Eighteenth Century'

Dr. Jonathan Andrews (Newcastle University), 'Diagnosing and Treating Melancholy in Georgian England'

Professor R.A. Houston (University of St Andrews), '"The Limits of Sympathy": Newspaper Reporting of Suicide in the North of England, c. 1750-1830'

Dr. Katherine Hodgkin (University of East London), 'Religion and the Body in Seventeenth-Century Women's Melancholy'

Professor Jeffrey Hopes (Université du Maine), '"La maladie anglaise": French Views of Depression and Suicide in Eighteenth-Century England'