The Tears of Narcissus: Melancholia and Masculinity in Early Modern Writing

by Lynn Enterline

Offering offers new readings of early modern texts, this book argues that contemporary psychoanalytic theory written in the light of the work of Kristeva and Lacan affords a precise understanding of the connection between melancholia, narcissism, sexual difference and literary form in the works by Tasso, Marvell, Shakespeare, and Webster. Attending to the many ways that melancholia and narcissism are interwoven - and to the pressure that such an entanglement...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804723974
• ISBN13: 9780804723978
• Release Date: September 1995
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 440 Pages