The Anatomy of Melancholy: Volume II: Text (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780198123309)

The second volume of Burton's masterful work, The Anatomy of Melancholy, this edition includes the text and textual apparatus for "The Second Partition." Burton furnishes the full spectrum of cures for melancholy, outlining and analyzing the symptoms and causes of the disorder in the same format as in the first partition. In the "Digression of the Ayre," he presents a remarkable synthesis of the cultural, geographical, and climatic influences on temperament, and in the final two sections presents extensive remedies from both physics and surgery.

Author: Robert Burton
ISBN-10: 0198123302
ISBN-13: 9780198123309
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Language: English
Published: 11/08/1990
Pages: 460
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.80lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
New York Review of Books 06/09/2005 pg. 55