The Anatomy of Melancholy: Volume I
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Product details:
- Edition number and title :Volume I
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 5 October 1989
- ISBN 9780198124481
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages746 pages
- Size 240x164x46 mm
- Weight 1288 g
- Language English
- Illustrations frontispiece, 10 halftones 0
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Short description:
A scholarly edition of a volume of The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.
MoreLong description:
Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy is one of the last great works of English prose to have remained unedited. The present volume inaugurates an authoritative edition of the work, which is being prepared by scholars on both sides of the Atlantic. It will be followed by two further volumes of text with textual apparatus, and two volumes of commentary.
Burton concentrated a lifetime of inquiry into the Anatomy, describing and analysing melancholy and its causes - devoting especial attention to love and religion - and recording possible cures. Primarily a scholarly study of morbid psychology, it is also a compendium of curious facts and anecdotes, and combines seriousness of purpose with a marked satirical vein.
First published in 1621, it was a great success: four more editions were published in Burton's lifetime, in each of which new material was added, and a sixth, containing his final revisions, was published in in 1651, eleven years after his death. The textual complexity and Burton's extraordinary range of reference have hitherto deterred editors: this is the first scholarly edition to appear. The text is based on a complete collation of all six authoritative editions.
'impeccable ... we can be immensely grateful to Kiessling, together with Thomas C. Faulkner and Rhonda Blair, for producing the first part of a projected five-volume scholarly edition of the Anatomy ...As well as providing foundations for future investigators, this publication contains a valuable scholarly Introduction by J.B. Bamborough.'
Roy Porter, Wellcome Institute, Medical History 34(4):Oct '90
Table of Contents:
List of illustrations
J.B. Bamborough: Introduction (biographical)
Textual introductionThe Anatomy of Melancholy
The argument of the frontispiece
Frontispiece
Dedication
Democritus Junior ad Librum suum
The Authors Abstract of Melancholy
Democritus Junior to the Reader
Lectori male feriato
Heraclite fleas, miseero sic convenit aevo
The Synopsis of the First Partition
The First Partition
Textual Notes
Democritus Junior to the Reader
The First ?artition
Index of persons
