The Melancholy Assemblage: Affect and Epistemology in the English Renaissance

by Drew Daniel

Book Overview

This book considers melancholy as an "assemblage," as a network of dynamic, interpretive relationships between persons, bodies, texts, spaces, structures, and things. In doing so, it parts ways with past interpretations of melancholy. Tilting the English Renaissance against the present moment, Daniel argues that the basic disciplinary tension between medicine and philosophy persists within contemporary debates about emotional embodiment. To make this...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823251276
• ISBN13: 9780823251278
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.1"