The Literature of Melancholia: Early Modern to Postmodern

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Melancholia as a Sense of Loss: An Introduction....Pages 1-19
Front Matter....Pages 21-21
Yet Once More: Melancholia and Amnesia in Milton’s Lycidas....Pages 23-34
Male Pregnancies, Virgin Births, Monsters of the Mind: Early Modern Melancholia and (Cross-)Gendered Constructions of Creativity....Pages 35-49
Mourning and Melancholia in England and Its Transatlantic Colonies: Examples of Seventeenth-Century Female Appropriations....Pages 50-66
‘To pictur’d Regions and imagin’d Worlds’: Female Melancholic Writing and the Poems of Mary Leapor....Pages 67-83
Front Matter....Pages 85-85
‘The dark bottomless Abyss, that lies under our feet, had yawned open’: The Recision of the Male Melancholic Genius in Carlyle’s Sartor Resartus....Pages 87-100
‘They Came, They Cut Away My Tallest Pines’: Tennyson and the Melancholy of Modernity....Pages 101-115
The Melancholy of History: The French Revolution and European Historiography....Pages 116-129
Commercializing Melancholy: The National Trust....Pages 130-144
Front Matter....Pages 145-145
Melancholia in the South Pacific: The Strange Case of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Travel Writing....Pages 147-159
The Secret of the Father in the Colonial Secret: Rosa Praed’s ‘Weird Melancholy’....Pages 160-172
Modernist Melancholia and Time: The Synchronicity of the Non-Synchronic in Freud, Tylor and Conrad....Pages 173-186
The Closed Circle of Britain’s Postcolonial Melancholia....Pages 187-204
Front Matter....Pages 205-205
Working at the Seams: Howard Barker’s Tragic Trauerspiel....Pages 207-222
Melancholia and Mourning Animals....Pages 223-239
Melancholic Consolation? J. M. Coetzee, Irony and the Aesthetics of the Sublime....Pages 240-253
The Novel after Melancholia: On Tom McCarthy’s Remainder and David Mitchell’s Ghostwritten....Pages 254-267
Back Matter....Pages 268-271