| Description |
x, 368 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Figurae
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Figurae (Stanford, Calif.)
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-351) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Love-melancholy and early modern romance -- From Amor hereos to love-melancholy: a medico-literary history -- "Vulnus caecum": the secret wound of love-melancholy -- "Solvite me": epic, romance, and the poetics of melancholy in Orlando Furioso --"Il primo error": love-melancholy in Gerusalemme Liberata -- Rewriting romance: Arthur's "secret wound" and the "lamentable lay" of elegy -- "The love-sicke hart": female love-melancholy and the romance quest -- Conclusion: La Belle Dame Sans Merci: romance and the dream of "language strange". |
| Subject |
Love in literature.
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Love in literature. |
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Lovesickness in literature.
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Lovesickness in literature. |
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Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism.
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Literature, Medieval. |
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European literature -- Renaissance, 1450-1600 -- History and criticism.
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Bellettrie. |
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Liefdesverdriet. |
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Melancholie. |
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Medische aspecten. |
| ISBN |
0804750467 cloth alkaline paper |
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9780804750462 cloth alkaline paper |
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