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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University of Exeter
2009
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| Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.529346 |