Beyond Melancholy : Sadness and selfhood in Renaissance England
- Submitting institution
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The University of Birmingham
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 26736599
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- ISBN
- 9780198739654
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- March
- Year of publication
- 2016
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This 110,000-word, 227-page study is the culmination of nine years of research and writing. Its interdisciplinary methodology fuses literary close reading, historical empiricism, and theoretical concepts from the history of emotion. It incorporates archival research undertaken at the Bodleian Library, British Library, Guildhall Library, and Wellcome Library and draws on early modern source materials including doctors’ manuscript case notes, mortality records, manuscript autobiographies, medical texts, religious treatises and sermons, and contemporary plays, poems, ballads, and prose treatises. Literary and historical analysis of these materials underpin its proposal of ‘emotive improvisation’ as an important theoretical tool for the history of emotion.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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