The secret wound [[electronic resource] ] : love-melancholy and early modern romance / / Marion A. Wells
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Wells Marion A
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| Titolo: |
The secret wound [[electronic resource] ] : love-melancholy and early modern romance / / Marion A. Wells
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| Pubblicazione: | Stanford, Calif., : Stanford University Press, 2007 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (380 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 809/.933543 |
| Soggetto topico: | Love in literature |
| Lovesickness in literature | |
| Literature, Medieval - History and criticism | |
| European literature - Renaissance, 1450-1600 - History and criticism | |
| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [341]-351) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 -- 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The secret wound |
| ISBN: | 0-8047-6744-0 |
| 1-4356-0879-8 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910778255103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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