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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451970803321

Autore

Wells Marion A

Titolo

The secret wound [[electronic resource] ] : love-melancholy and early modern romance / / Marion A. Wells

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stanford, Calif., : Stanford University Press, 2007

ISBN

0-8047-6744-0

1-4356-0879-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (380 p.)

Disciplina

809/.933543

Soggetti

Love in literature

Lovesickness in literature

Literature, Medieval - History and criticism

European literature - Renaissance, 1450-1600 - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [341]-351) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Love-Melancholy and Early Modern Romance -- 1. From Amor hereos to Love-Melancholy: A Medico-Literary History -- 2. Vulnus caecum: The Secret Wound of Love-Melancholy -- 3. Solvite me: Epic, Romance, and the Poetics of Melancholy in the Orlando Furioso -- 4. Il primo error: Love-Melancholy and Romance in the Gerusalemme Liberata -- 5. Rewriting Romance: Arthur’s “Secret Wound” and the “Lamentable Lay” of Elegy -- 6. “The Love-sicke hart”: Female Love-Melancholy and the Romance Quest -- Conclusion: La Belle Dame Sans Merci: Romance and the Dream of “Language Strange” -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Offers a reading of early modern romance in the light of historically contemporary accounts of mind, and specifically the medical tradition of love-melancholy. This book establishes a detailed historical basis for investigating the psychological structure of romance. It investigates the central critical problem of early modern subjectivity.