"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…
A provocative look at a timely subject, this study is essential reading for anyone interested in race studies, critical theory, or psychoanalysis."--Résumé de l'éditeur A provocative look at a timely subject, this study is essential reading for anyone interested in race studies…
A depressive illness or a passing feeling? Mental detachment or a precursor to genius? Melancholy is a critical part of what it is to be human, yet everything from Prozac to self-help psychology books seems intent on removing all signs of sadness from contemporary existence. A F…
"A depressive illness or a passing feeling? Mental detachment or a precursor to genius? Melancholy is a critical part of what it is to be human, yet everything from Prozac to self-help psychology books seem intent on removing all signs of sadness from contemporary existence. Com…
Le plus insupportable dans la perte, serait-ce la perte de vue? Annoncerait-elle, chez l'autre, l'absolu retrait d'amour et, en nous, l'inquiétude d'une infirmité : ne pas être capable d'aimer l'invisible? Si la psychanalyse est convoquée ici, ce n'est pas comme regard théorique…
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This book is a psychological study of the impulses behind the creation of androids. Exploring three imaginative figures{u2014}the mummy, the golem, and the automaton{u2014}and their appearances in myth, religion, literature, and film, Wilson tracks the development of android-bui…
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A case for literary critics and other humanists to stop wallowing in their aestheticized helplessness and instead turn to poetry, comedy, and love.Literary criticism is an agent of despair, and its poster child is Walter Benjamin. Critics have spent decades stewing in his melanc…
A case for literary critics and other humanists to stop wallowing in their aestheticized helplessness and instead turn to poetry, comedy, and love.Literary criticism is an agent of despair, and its poster child is Walter Benjamin. Critics have spent decades stewing in his melanc…
