The Secret Wound: Love-Melancholy And Early Modern Romance by Marion Wells

The Secret Wound: Love-Melancholy And Early Modern Romance



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The Secret Wound: Love-Melancholy And Early Modern Romance Marion Wells
Language: English
Page: 384
Format: pdf
ISBN: 0804750467, 9780804750462
Publisher: Stanford University Press

"This fine and noteworthy book... is a significant and valuable addition to the study of early modern romance and should soon be adopted by fellow researchers as well as in courses dedicated to the genre."—Consciousness, Literature and the Arts

"Wells offers a comprehensive account of the medical and psychological tradition of 'love-melancholy' as it evolved from the Greeks through the Renaissance, demonstrating beyond doubt the importance of this cultural trope... This study is an important and much-needed complement to recent work on romance."—CHOICE

"An intriguing, well-reasoned, in-depth exploration of a critical literary component."—The Midwest Book Review

"The Secret Wound is well-written and beautifully researched; its impact will be wide, deep, and across several disciplinary borders. Its trenchant account of the widespread literary phenomenon of love-melancholy will be read with interest by all s

"This is a strong book, which will make a central contribution to the study of early modern literature and to the history of ideas. Wells presents a bold argument, and is a master of classical tradition, allowing her to make novel and impressive claims."— This book offers a new reading of early modern romance in the light of historically contemporary accounts of mind, and specifically the medical tradition of love-melancholy. The book argues that the medical profile of the melancholic lover provides an essential context for understanding the characteristic patterns of romance: narrative deferral, epistemological uncertainty, and the endless quest for a quasi-phantasmic beloved. Unlike many recent studies of romance, this book establishes a detailed historical basis for investigating the psychological structure of romance. Wells begins by tracing the development of the medical disorder first known in the Latin west as amor hereos (lovesickness) from its earliest roots in Greek and Arabic medicine to its translation into the Latin medical tradition. Drawing on this detailed historical material, the book considers three important early modern romances: Ariosto's Orlando Furioso, Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata, and Spenser's The Faerie Queene, concluding with a brief consideration of the significance of this literary and medical legacy for Romanticism. Most broadly, the interdisciplinary nature of this study allows the author to investigate the central critical problem of early modern subjectivity in substantially new ways.

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