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The secret wound : love-melancholy and early modern romance

Title
The secret wound : love-melancholy and early modern romance / Marion A. Wells.
Author
Wells, Marion A.
Publication
Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2007.
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x, 368 p.; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Figurae
Uniform Title
Figurae (Stanford, Calif.)
Subject
  • Love in literature
  • Lovesickness in literature
  • Literature, Medieval > History and criticism
  • European literature > Renaissance, 1450-1600 > History and criticism
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [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".
Call Number
JFE 07-6290
ISBN
  • 0804750467 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780804750462 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
2005035933
OCLC
62593564
Author
Wells, Marion A.
Title
The secret wound : love-melancholy and early modern romance / Marion A. Wells.
Imprint
Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2007.
Series
Figurae
Figurae (Stanford, Calif.)
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [341]-351) and index.
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