"This book offers an original account of the development of literary biography in the long eighteenth century and reveals different ways in which biographers probed the inner life through writers' melancholy. The first half tracks the unstable status of melancholy in biographica…
"This book considers melancholy as an "assemblage," as a network of dynamic, interpretive relationships between persons, bodies, texts, spaces, structures, and things. In doing so, it parts ways with past interpretations of melancholy. Tilting the English Renaissance against the…
"This book considers melancholy as an "assemblage," as a network of dynamic, interpretive relationships between persons, bodies, texts, spaces, structures, and things. In doing so, it parts ways with past interpretations of melancholy. Tilting the English Renaissance against the…
Apresenta narrativa desdobrada em três momentos : a antiguidade clássica, a renascença e o Brasil na transição para a modernidade. Elabora um grande painel histórico apresentando uma obra original sobre um tema pouco explorado mas de grande importância para o entendimento da con…
Apresenta narrativa desdobrada em três momentos : a antiguidade clássica, a renascença e o Brasil na transição para a modernidade. Elabora um grande painel histórico apresentando uma obra original sobre um tema pouco explorado mas de grande importância para o entendimento da con…
Modernism and melancholia share an intellectual fate: being at once categories, conditions, discourses, modes of expression, and social projects, they feed on their own ambiguity. But modernism and melancholia also share a history: it was in the cultural-historical period we ten…