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Journey through the subject of melancholia in an easily accessible volume touching on topics from love and sex to religion and geography

Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy is one of the great but unclassifiable prose works in English literature: diverting, delightfully rambling, and filled with recondite learning and peculiar facts and speculations. Burton, frustrated at the stagnant, disorderly society in which he found himself, became convinced that the problems of England lay in its inclination to melancholy. This is the starting-point, or pretext, for a hugely wide-ranging survey of the causes, descriptions of melancholy. Burton's unsystematic approach to his subject contributes greatly to its charm and interest, for much of it is composed of digressions that are, in effect, self-contained essays on all manner of subjects: cosmology, religious fanaticism, devils and spirits, food, love, and sex.

Language: English

Pages: 108

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Hesperus Press

Release: May 12, 2022

ISBN: 1843916223

ISBN 13: 9781843916222

on melancholy

3.5/5 ( ratings)

Journey through the subject of melancholia in an easily accessible volume touching on topics from love and sex to religion and geography

Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy is one of the great but unclassifiable prose works in English literature: diverting, delightfully rambling, and filled with recondite learning and peculiar facts and speculations. Burton, frustrated at the stagnant, disorderly society in which he found himself, became convinced that the problems of England lay in its inclination to melancholy. This is the starting-point, or pretext, for a hugely wide-ranging survey of the causes, descriptions of melancholy. Burton's unsystematic approach to his subject contributes greatly to its charm and interest, for much of it is composed of digressions that are, in effect, self-contained essays on all manner of subjects: cosmology, religious fanaticism, devils and spirits, food, love, and sex.

Language: English

Pages: 108

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Hesperus Press

Release: May 12, 2022

ISBN: 1843916223

ISBN 13: 9781843916222

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