Before Depression
1660 - 1800
There are a number of downloadable items arising from the project. The following lists give you quick access to them.
Public Lecture Series One
'Understanding Depression' Dr Alison Brabban
'The
Englishman's Malady: Goldsmith and Civilised Needs'
Professor
Nigel Wood
'Women's Spiritual Autobiography' Professor Anne Laurence
'Revisiting the Boswells: Work, Politeness, and Melancholy in the Scottish Enlightenment' Professor Anthony J. LaVopa
'The true culprit is the mind, which can never run away from itself (Horace): Samuel Johnson and Depression' Professor Serge Soupel
'Anxious
Cares: From Pope's Spleen to Coleridge's Dejection'
Professor
Michael O'Neill
'Coleridge's Melancholy' Dr Neil Vickers
'Melancholy
Amusements: Women, Gardens, and the Depression of Spirits'
Dr
Stephen Bending
'Mere Despair: Alexander Pope
and the Death of Hope'
Professor Allan Ingram
Plenary Lectures from the Conference
'"As melancholy as a sick Parrot": Depressed(?) Women at the Beginning of the Long Eighteenth Century' Elaine Hobby
'Burton & Sons: The Masks of Melancholy' Madeleine Descargues-Grant
'Frances Burney and
Alexander d'Arblay: Creative and Uncreative Gloom
Peter Sabor
'Talking the Blues': two lectures given at the Literary and Philosophical Society, Newcastle upon Tyne, in association with the '18th-Century Blues' exhibition
18th-Century
Blues: Assembling the Melancholy Mind
Professor Allan
Ingram & Dr Leigh Wetherall-Dickson
Beset by Blue Devils:
Romney, Wright and the Impact of Depression
David Cross
Public Lecture Series Two
'Get Happy! Romantic Psychiatry
and the Addiction to Wellness'
Professor Joel Faflak
'Engraving the 18th-Century Blues: Hogarth's Representation of Depression' Professor Peter Wagner (University of Koblenz-Landau)
'The Limits of Sympathy: Newspaper Reporting of Suicide in Scotland and the North of England, c.1750-1830' Professor RAB Houston (University of St Andrews)
'Melancholy and the Talking Cure in the Sixteenth
Century'
Professor Jenny Richards (University of Newcastle)
'"La maladie anglaise": French views of depression and suicide in eighteenth-century England' Professor Jeffrey Hopes (Université du Maine)
'Poor Maria & My Friend, Mr Shandy' Patrick Wildgust (Curator, Shandy Hall)
'Diagnosing and Treating Melancholy in Georgian
England'
Dr Jonathan Andrews (University
of Newcastle)
'Religion and the Body in Seventeenth-Century
Women's Melancholy'
Dr Katharine Hodgkin (University of East
London)
'The Ordeal of John Bunyan' Professor W.R. Owens (Open University)
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