British Romantic melancholia: Charlotte Smith's Elegiac Sonnets, medical discourse and the problem of sensibility

Authors :: Dolan, Elizabeth A.
Source :: Journal of European Studies. December 2003, Vol. 33 Issue 3-4, p237, 17 p.
Publication Year :: 2003
Abstract: In the context of increasing British discomfort with the cult of sensibility in the 1790s, medical writers redefined the profile of the melancholic as a highly rational, rather than emotional, [...]

Subjects :: Melancholy -- Research -- Analysis
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