Robert Burton and the Transformative Powers of Melancholy - Paperback

by Stephanie Shirilan (Author)

In this study, Stephanie Shirilan unearths and contextualizes the celebration of the powers of the melancholic imagination in Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, thus rescuing it from the overly literal readings of contemporary historicism. Situating Burton's recognition of cognitive and spiritual impressionability in its physiological and theological

Author Biography

Stephanie Shirilan is Assistant Professor of English at Syracuse University, USA.