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Title

'Tis all one : "The anatomy of melancholy" as belated copious discourse / Mary Murphy Schmelzer.

Author

Schmelzer, Mary Murphy, 1940-

Publication

New York : P. Lang, [1999], ©1999.

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Description

140 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

• "'Tis All One seeks to understand the epistemological shift to the empirical validation of truth that characterized the intellectual climate in Western Europe at the beginning of the seventeenth century. It focuses on the frustrations that Robert Burton could not suppress as he wrote The Anatomy of Melancholy, applying the model of copious discourse that Desiderius Erasmus encouraged nascent rhetoricians to employ in the de Copia he published a century earlier.
• By 1620 Burton cries out there are "too many books" for him to read on the subject of melancholy and finds that sixteenth-century methodologies yield bitter fruit."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

American university studies. Series IV, English language and literature, 0741-0700 ; vol. 190

Uniform Title

American university studies. Series IV, English language and literature ; v. 190.

Subjects

• Depression, Mental, in literature
• Discourse analysis, Literary
• Logic in literature
• Erasmus, Desiderius, -1536 > Influence
• Melancholy in literature
• Literature and science > England > History > 17th century
• Burton, Robert, 1577-1640 > Anatomy of melancholy
• Erasmus, Desiderius, -1536 > De copia
• Rhetoric, Renaissance

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [135]-137) and index.

Contents

I. What Do People Want With Burton? -- II. There is No End To Writing -- III. "We Can Say Nothing But What Hath Been Said" -- IV. "I Ease My Mind By Writing" -- V. A Reason of the Name.

ISBN

082043664X (alk. paper)

LCCN

98030524

OCLC

• 39605250
• ocm39605250

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries