The literature of melancholia

Chapter 1 Melancholia as a Sense of Loss: An Introduction

Chapter 2 Yet Once More: Melancholia and Amnesia in Milton’s Lycidas

Chapter 3 Male Pregnancies, Virgin Births, Monsters of the Mind: Early Modern Melancholia and (Cross-)Gendered Constructions of Creativity

Chapter 4 Mourning and Melancholia in England and Its Transatlantic Colonies: Examples of Seventeenth-Century Female Appropriations

Chapter 5 ‘To pictur’d Regions and imagin’d Worlds’: Female Melancholic Writing and the Poems of Mary Leapor

Chapter 6 ‘The dark bottomless Abyss, that lies under our feet, had yawned open’: The Recision of the Male Melancholic Genius in Carlyle’s Sartor Resartus

Chapter 7 ‘They Came, They Cut Away My Tallest Pines’: Tennyson and the Melancholy of Modernity

Chapter 8 The Melancholy of History: The French Revolution and European Historiography

Chapter 9 Commercializing Melancholy: The National Trust

Chapter 10 Melancholia in the South Pacific: The Strange Case of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Travel Writing

Chapter 11 The Secret of the Father in the Colonial Secret: Rosa Praed’s ‘Weird Melancholy’

Chapter 12 Modernist Melancholia and Time: The Synchronicity of the Non-Synchronic in Freud, Tylor and Conrad

Chapter 13 The Closed Circle of Britain’s Postcolonial Melancholia

Chapter 14 Working at the Seams: Howard Barker’s Tragic Trauerspiel

Chapter 15 Melancholia and Mourning Animals

Chapter 16 Melancholic Consolation? J. M. Coetzee, Irony and the Aesthetics of the Sublime

Chapter 17 The Novel after Melancholia: On Tom McCarthy’s Remainder and David Mitchell’s Ghostwritten