Melancholic Habits: Burton's Anatomy & the Mind Sciences

by Jennifer Radden

Jennifer Radden here provides a re-interpretation of the classic text by 17th century scholar Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy. Her new reading of Burton's essential text brings several key facets of his thought to light: the role of imagination in inciting and averting melancholy as disorder; the part played by daily habits of thought in engendering severe and incurable conditions; the multi-directional feedback loops linking feeling and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199348197
• ISBN13: 9780199348190
• Release Date: December 2016
• Publisher: Oxford Univ PR
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 2.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.6" x 8.4"