Melancholy, Genius and Utopia in the Renaissance

Abstract

In the penultimate chapter of her cogent study entitled Voices of Melancholy {191 \), Bridget Gellert Lyons, commenting on Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy, first published in 1621, claims that Burton's definition of the term "melancholy" grew to such a point that it not only became "an enormous catch-all for causes and symptoms of disease" but also "the condition of mortality" itself (p.

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