Melancholy and the Care of the Soul: Religion, Moral Philosophy and Madness in Early Modern England (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780754657484)

This book furthers our understanding of the issue of melancholy in early modern culture by examining the extensive discussions of melancholy in seventeenth- and eighteenth- century religious and moral philosophical publications, many of which have received only scant attention from modern scholars. As a study in intellectual history, Melancholy and the Care of the Soul offers new insights into a wide variety of early modern texts, including literary representations and medical works, and critically engages with a broad range of current scholarship in addressing some of the central interpretive issues in the history of early modern medicine, psychiatry, religion and culture.

Author: Jeremy Schmidt
ISBN-10: 0754657485
ISBN-13: 9780754657484
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 02/28/2007
Pages: 232
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.11lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.56d