The Poetics of Melancholy in Early Modern England"Douglas Trevor's The Poetics of Melancholy is a theoretically informed, historically grounded, and critically nuanced account of the influence of scholarly melancholy on major writers in early modern England. With its insistence that inwardness matters as much as the social forces that regulate identity, the book represents an important contribution to theories of Renaissance subjectivity and identity." --Seventeenth-Century News "Douglas Trevor has weighed in with a resonant and sensible voice on the growing cultural significance of sadness in Renaissance England." --The Spenser Review "Trevor has to work hard to carve out new terrain in an overworked area, but his book successfully collapses frontiers between the history of emotion and the history of the material book." --The Times Literary Supplement |
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