The subtextual body : melancholy, humoural physiology and bodies of knowledge in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English literature

This dissertation examines the themes of epistemology related to the physiology of the humours and melancholy in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English prose, with chief emphasis on Robert Burton’s (1577-1640) The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621). It charts the transformations of the humoural condit...

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Main Author: Thompson, Dean
Other Authors: Edwards, Karen
Published: University of Exeter 2009
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.529346