03116nam 22006614a 450 991082399950332120240410191600.00-8047-6744-01-4356-0879-810.1515/9780804767446(CKB)1000000000480330(OCoLC)290565461(CaPaEBR)ebrary10180135(SSID)ssj0000243023(PQKBManifestationID)11218897(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000243023(PQKBWorkID)10322057(PQKB)10465226(StDuBDS)EDZ0000127877(MiAaPQ)EBC3037558(Au-PeEL)EBL3037558(CaPaEBR)ebr10180135(DE-B1597)582389(DE-B1597)9780804767446(OCoLC)1294425696(EXLCZ)99100000000048033020051208d2007 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrThe secret wound[electronic resource] love-melancholy and early modern romance /Marion A. Wells1st ed.Stanford, Calif. Stanford University Press20071 online resource (380 p.)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-8047-5046-7 Includes bibliographical references (p. [341]-351) and index.Front matter --Contents --Acknowledgments --Introduction: Love-Melancholy and Early Modern Romance --1. From Amor heroes 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 --IndexOffers 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.Love in literatureLovesickness in literatureLiterature, MedievalHistory and criticismEuropean literatureRenaissance, 1450-1600History and criticismLove in literature.Lovesickness in literature.Literature, MedievalHistory and criticism.European literatureHistory and criticism.809/.933543Wells Marion A1579911MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910823999503321The secret wound4062662UNINA