Find thousands of books, manuscripts, visual materials and unpublished archives from our collections, many of them with free online access.
Search for free, downloadable images taken from our library and museum collections, including paintings, illustrations, photos and more.
The secret wound : love-melancholy and early modern romance / Marion A. Wells.
- Wells, Marion A.
- Date
- 2007
- Books
Where to find it
About this work
Publication/Creation
Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2007.
Physical description
x, 368 pages ; 24 cm.
Contributors
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".
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references (p. [341]-351) and index.
Languages
- English
Permanent link
Identifiers
ISBN
- 0804750467
- 9780804750462
We’re improving the information on this page. Find out more.