The literature of melancholia : early modern to postmodern
Melancholia as a sense of loss: an introduction / Yet once more: melancholia and amnesia in Milton's Lycidas / Male pregnancies, virgin births, monsters of the mind: early modern melancholia and (cross-)gendered constructions of creativity / Mourning and melancholia in England and its transatlantic colonies: examples of seventeenth-century female appropriations / "To pictur'd regions and imagin'd worlds": female melancholic writing and the poems of Mary Leapor / "The dark bottomless abyss, that lies under our feet, had yawned open": the rescision of the male melancholic genius in Carlyle's Sartor Resartus / "They came, they cut away my tallest pines": Tennyson and the melancholy of modernity / The melancholy of history: the French Revolution and European historiography / Commercialising melancholy: the National Trust / Melancholia in the South Pacific: the strange case of Robert Louis Stevenson's travel writing / The secret of the father in the colonial secret: Rosa Praed's Weird Melancholy / Modernist melancholia and time: the synchronicity of the non-synchronic in Freud, Tylor and Conrad / The closed circle of Britain's postcolonial melancholia / Working at the seams: Howard Barker's tragic Trauerspiel / Melancholia and mourning animals / Melancholic consolation?: J. M. Coetzee, irony, and the aesthetics of the sublime / The novel after melancholia: on Tom McCarthy's Remainder and David Mitchell's Ghostwritten
Middeke, M. (Martin), 1948-
Wald, Christina, 1976-
Martin Middeke and Christina Wald -- Tobias Döring -- Anne-Julia Zwierlein -- Gabriele Rippl -- Sabine Blackmore -- Felix Sprang -- Andrew Gibson -- Peter Fritzsche -- Christoph Ehland and Stephan Kohl -- Kirsten Sandrock -- Jennifer Rutherford -- Anne Enderwitz -- Paul Gilroy -- Elizabeth Sakellaridou -- Juliana Schiesari -- Johan Geertsema -- Pieter Vermeulen.
edited by Martin Middeke and Christina Wald.