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Secret Wound

Love-Melancholy and Early Modern Romance

By Marion A. Wells

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Publish Date

2006

Publisher

Stanford University Press

Language

eng

Pages

368

Description:

Offers a reading of early modern romance in the light of historically contemporary accounts of mind, and specifically the medical tradition of love-melancholy. This book establishes a detailed historical basis for investigating the psychological structure of romance. It investigates the central critical problem of early modern subjectivity.