...Margaret Bruzelius © 2001 University of Washington 2001 MLQ 62.1-02 Bruzelius 2/9/01 2:05 PM Page 19 “The King of England . . . Loved to Look upon a man”: Melancholy and Masculinity in Scott’s Talisman Margaret Bruzelius...

... and Melancholy Apes: Humans and Other Animals in the Modern Literary Imagination . By Brown Laura . Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press , 2010 . xi + 156 pp . © 2012 by University of Washington 2012 Reviews Animal Characters: Nonhuman Beings in Early Modern Literature. By Bruce Thomas...

...Katharine Eisaman Maus The Poetics of Melancholy in Early Modern England . By Douglas Trevor. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xii + 252 pp. University of Washington 2007 Katharine Eisaman Maus is James Branch Cabell Professor of English at the University of Virginia...

... published of the literary nature of The Anatomy of Melancholy. Although the eighth of Feb- ruary, 1977, passed in con temporary literary circles without such signals of acclaim as the publication of Festschriften, the giving of large parties, or even the reading of papers at a special session...

... with the figure of Hamlet at a time when Shakespeare's Danish prince was being reinvented as an embodiment of Romantic weltschmerz and as a symbol for the powerless, isolated intellectual. Instead of contributing to the Romantic cult of a melancholy Hamlet, Owenson and Staël confront their protagonists...

... projects of those who were defeated by history. This ethic of recovery has at times gone by the name “melancholy historicism,” and its paragon text has been Toni Morrison’s Beloved . This essay questions whether recovery predicated on such assumptions is the only way to either have or do slave history...

... of the tradition, but rather than move toward hope, in the manner of most earlier texts, it ends with Seward’s melancholy recognition of her own weakness. Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s 1798 “Fears in Solitude,” which also retains some features of the tradition, is a sustained reflection on the individual’s limited...

...- ducing the author to his public. Its main purpose is to justify the three lengthy partitions to follow. And in Burton’s mind, these partitions, with their erudite and witty discussions of the causes, symptoms, and cures of melancholy, and of the mysteries of love melancholy and religious...

... of Human Nature he ends his long reverie of an increasingly self-obliterating ‘‘philosophical melancholy” with a newfound sociability of dining, conversation, and backgammon that makes his earlier passions seem “cold, and strain’d, and ridiculous.”3 And after all, Jerome Christensen begins his...

... the superstitious are often melancholy, and the melancholy almost always super- stitious. Two questions might be raised by these considerations of Rasselus: Can anything be learned here of Johnson’s own melancholy and of his insight into it? And in what respects, if any, can his psychology be said...

...-319. 2 See especially S. Blaine Ewing, Burtonian Melancholy in the Plays of John Ford (Princeton, 1940), passim; G. F. Sensabaugh, “Burton’s Influence on Ford’s The Lover’s Melancholy,” SP, XXXIII, 545-71 ; idem., “Ford’s Tragedy of Love-Melancholy,” Englisclze Studietz, Band 73, Heft 2...

... of mind. The weakness of the sanguine type was love; and love, indeed, could even drive him to the opposite humor, cold, dry melancholy, and so to madness. Such pangs and miseries appear in Romeoa6 and in the Duke Orsino;s6 but Orlando, despite his desperate case, seems always...

... the Aristotelian rule of “not too much” and explains that, as age overtakes the mortal, now that it must, . . . in thy blood will reigne A melancholy damp of cold and dry To weigh thy spirits down, and last consume The Balme of Life.’ Burton’s...

...Douglas Trevor Douglas Trevor is associate professor of English at the University of Iowa. He is author of The Poetics of Melancholy in Early Modern England (2004) and of The Thin Tear in the Fabric of Space (2005), a collection of short stories. He is working on a book on love and heresy...

... and inactivity to a bold adventurousness hardly predictable from their first appearances” (86). To provide a historical context by which to explain the striking transformations of these women, Paster focuses on the early modern period’s conception of “virgin melancholy,” also known as the “green sick...

... a historical context by which to explain the striking transformations of these women, Paster focuses on the early modern period’s conception of “virgin melancholy,” also known as the “green sick- ness,” which contended that the virgin’s body could literally poison itself by producing more blood than its...

... appearances” (86). To provide a historical context by which to explain the striking transformations of these women, Paster focuses on the early modern period’s conception of “virgin melancholy,” also known as the “green sick- ness,” which contended that the virgin’s body could literally poison itself...

... from sadness and inactivity to a bold adventurousness hardly predictable from their first appearances” (86). To provide a historical context by which to explain the striking transformations of these women, Paster focuses on the early modern period’s conception of “virgin melancholy,” also known...

... appearances” (86). To provide a historical context by which to explain the striking transformations of these women, Paster focuses on the early modern period’s conception of “virgin melancholy,” also known as the “green sick- ness,” which contended that the virgin’s body could literally poison itself...

..., is an imperishable source of joy. If that were all, these odes should be hymns of triumph, and they are not. It is the very acme of melancholy that the joy he celebrates is joy in beauty that must die.’ This comment is valuable, but misleading in emphasis. There are indeed conflicts in Keats’s poetry...