Robert Burton

Burton, Robert - 1577–1640, English clergyman and scholar, b. Leicestershire, educated at Oxford. He served as librarian at Christ Church, Oxford, all his life; in addition he was vicar of St. Thomas, Oxford, and later was rector of Seagrave, Leicestershire. A bachelor, he led an uneventful, scholarly life. His famous work, The Anatomy of Melancholy, appeared in 1621 under the pen name Read More...

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The Anatomy of Robert Burton's England
by William R. Mueller. 121 pgs.

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Preface

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Chapter I: Burtonian Criticism

Part One: Burton's Heritage

Chapter II: The Melancholy Tradition

Chapter III: Burton and the Tradition

Part Two: The State

Chapter IV: The Economy

Chapter V: Politics

Chapter VI: Social Problems

Part Three: The Church

Chapter VII: Catholicism

Chapter VIII: Nonconformity

Chapter IX: The Church of England

Chapter X: Superstition

Chapter XI: Conclusion

Notes
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The Psychiatry of Robert Burton (1944)
by Bergen Evans, George J. Mohr. 129 pgs.

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Preface

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The Man

The Book

Symptomatology

Etiology

Therapy

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index
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Robert Burton's Geography of Melancholy, in Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900
by Anne S. Chapple. 32 pgs.

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The Anatomy of Melancholy, Vol. IV
by Robert Burton, Thomas C. Faulkner, Nicolas K. Kiessling, Rhonda L. Blair. 366 pgs.

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This, the fifth volume of the Clarendon Press edition of Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, contains commentary on the text from Partition 1, Section 2, Member 4, Subsection 1 until the end of Part. 1, and on the whole of the second Partition. It thus concludes Burton's account of the causes, the symptoms, and the prognosis of melancholy, and his examination of the remedies for the disease both spiritual and medical. As before, the aim of the commentary is to aid the reader to understand Burton's meaning (to which end all the passages in Latin are translated) and to identify the sources of his many quotations from and references to other authors. The third and last volume of the commentary, and of the edition, will contains a full Bibliography of these authors and brief biographical notes on them.

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Acknowledgements

Contents: Volume IV

Introduction

Abbreviations

Note to Readers

Commentary

Appendix: Errata for Volumes I, Ii, and III
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The Nature of Melancholy: From Aristotle to Kristeva (Chap. 10 "Melancholic States: Burton")
by Jennifer Radden. 373 pgs.

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Spanning 24 centuries, this anthology collects over thirty selections of important Western writing about melancholy and its related conditions by philosophers, doctors, religious and literary figures, and modern psychologists. Truly interdisciplinary, it is the first such anthology. As it traces Western attitudes, it reveals a conversation across centuries and continents as the authors interpret, respond, and build on each other's work. Editor Jennifer Radden provides an extensive, in-depth introduction that draws links and parallels between the selections, and reveals the ambiguous relationship between these historical accounts of melancholy and today's psychiatric views on depression. This important new collection is also beautifully illustrated with depictions of melancholy from Western fine art.

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Preface

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Introduction: From Melancholic States to Clinical Depression

1: Brilliance and Melancholy

2: Diseases of the Black Bile

3: Accidie

4: Black Bile and Melancholia

5: Melancholia in Men and Women

6: Learned People and Melancholy

7: Melancholia, Witches, and Deceiving Demons

8: Melancholy Nuns

9: Melancholy

10: Melancholic States

11: The Melancholy Character

12: How to Help Melancholicks

13: The Spleen

14: The Chronic Disease of Melancholy

15: Werther's Death

16: Illnesses of the Cognitive Faculties

17: Melancholia

19: Ode on Melancholy" and "What the Thrush Said"

23: Affectivity in Mental Disorder

24: Depressive States

25: Loss

Part 2: After Freud

26: The Depressive Position

27: A Learned Helplessness Model of Depression

28: A Cognitivist Analysis of Depression

29: Affiliation, Cultural Roles, and Women's Depression

30: Mourning the Lost Mother and the Lost Self

31: Biomedical Analyses of Depression

Notes

Bibliography

Credits

Index
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'Never to Go Forth of the Limits': Space and Melancholy in Robert Burton's Library Project, in Journal of European Studies
by Liliana Barczyk-Barakonska. 14 pgs.

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Is There a Melancholic Gaze? From Visual Distemper to Visionary Fancy, in Journal of European Studies
by Claire Crignon-De Oliveira. 9 pgs.

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Literature and Utopian Politics in Seventeenth-Century England (Discussion of Robert Burton begins on p. 81)
by Robert Appelbaum. 256 pgs.

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Appelbaum surveys literature from 1603 to the 1660s and shows how its ideal politics were engaged in the reality of political and social struggle. He also shows how self-defeating the exercise could be. In an era of political and religious conflict, writers asserted themselves as the authors of social and political ideals. But they also constructed systems in which the assertion of utopian mastery would have no place, and an ideal politics could no longer be imagined. This study will interest political and cultural historians as well as literary critics.

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Literature and Utopian Politics in Seventeenth-Century England

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1: The Look of Power

Chapter 2: Utopian Experimentalism, 1620–1638

Chapter 3: Reformation and desolation: the New Horizons of the 1640s

Chapter 4: Out of the “true Nothing, ” 1649–1653

Chapter 5: From Constitutionalism to Aestheticization, 1654–1670

Notes

Index
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Religious Melancholy and Protestant Experience in America ("Robert Burton (1577-1640)" begins on p. 38)
by Julius H. Rubin. 310 pgs.

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This original examination of the spiritual narratives of conversion in the history of American Protestant evangelical religion reveals an interesting paradox. Fervent believers who devoted themselves completely to the challenges of making a Christian life, who longed to know God's rapturous love, all too often languished in despair, feeling forsaken by God. Ironically, those most devoted to fostering the soul's maturation neglected the well-being of the psyche. Drawing upon many sources, including unpublished diaries and case studies of patients treated in nineteenth-century asylums, Julius Rubin's fascinating study thoroughly explores religious melancholy--as a distinctive stance toward life, a grieving over the loss of God's love, and an obsession and psychopathology associated with the spiritual itinerary of conversion. The varieties of this spiritual sickness include sinners who would fast unto death ("evangelical anorexia nervosa"), religious suicides, and those obsessed with unpardonable sin. From colonial Puritans like Michael Wigglesworth to contemporary evangelicals like Billy Graham, among those who directed the course of evangelical religion and of their followers, Rubin shows that religious melancholy has shaped the experience of self and identity for those who sought rebirth as children of God.

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Religion in America Series Harry S. Stout, General Editor

Preface

Contents

1: The Protestant Ethic and the Melancholy Spirit

2: Evangelical Pietism in America

3: Evangelical Anorexia Nervosa

Conclusion

4: What Hath God Wrought? Religious Melancholy in the Second Great Awakening

5: Sinners Who Would Fast Unto Death

Conclusion

The Passing Away of Religious Melancholy?

Appendix A: Pastoral Care

Appendix B: Revivalists as Mediatorial Elites

Notes

Bibliography

Index
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The Age of Milton: An Encyclopedia of Major 17th-Century British and American Authors (Discussion of Robert Burton begins on p. 53)
by Alan Hager. 392 pgs.

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The 17th century was a time of significant cultural and political change. The era saw the rise of exploration and travel, the growth of the scientific method, and the spread of challenges to conventional religion. Many of these developments occurred in England and North America, and literature of the period reflects the intellectual and emotional fervor of the age. This reference chronicles the lives and works of more than 75 British and American writers of the 17th century.

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Preface

Timeline of Major 17th-Century British and American Authors

(1672-1719)

(1555-1626)

(1666-1731)

(1626-1697)

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(1649-1708)

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(1577-1640)

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(C. 1595-1639)

(C. 1585-1639)

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(C. 1613-1649)

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(1563-1639 and 1593-1652/1653)

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(1572/1573-1637)

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(C. 1634-1693)

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(1647-1680)

(C. 1637-1711)

(1577-1640)

(C. 1642-1692)

(1671-1713)

(1564-1616)

(1632-1677)

(1608/1609-1642)

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(1578-1653)

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List of Authors by Birth Year

Selected General Bibliography

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Encyclopedia of the Essay (Discussion of Robert Burton begins on p. 24)
by Tracy Chevalier. 1004 pgs.

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The Encyclopedia of the Essay is the first reference work entirely devoted to the essay as a genre.
Coverage begins with Montaigne, the first essayist, and stretches forward to Addison and Steele, The Spectator and The Tatler, Marivaux, William Hazlitt, Jose Ortega y Gasset, Robert Musil, Theodor Adorno, Nouvelle Revue francaise, Virginia Woolf, George Orwell, and across the ocean to Emerson and Thoreau, E.B. White, The New Yorker and Harper's, James Baldwin, Susan Sontag, Joan Didion -- while also looking back to classical and medieval precursors.
More than 400 writers from around the world are included, along with geographic surveys that provide an historical framework, entries on types of essays, and entries on important single essays. Entries on closely-related genres such as letters, journals, treatises, sermons and reviews expand and explore the fluid boundaries of the essay as genre.

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Editor's Note

Advisers

List of Entries

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