Introduction: Love-Melancholy and Early Modern Romance

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: Love-Melancholy and Early Modern Romance 1
5. 1. From Amor hereos to Love-Melancholy: A Medico-Literary History 19
6. 2. Vulnus caecum: The Secret Wound of Love-Melancholy 60
7. 3. Solvite me: Epic, Romance, and the Poetics of Melancholy in the Orlando Furioso 96
8. 4. Il primo error: Love-Melancholy and Romance in the Gerusalemme Liberata 137
9. 5. Rewriting Romance: Arthur’s “Secret Wound” and the “Lamentable Lay” of Elegy 179
10. 6. “The Love-sicke hart”: Female Love-Melancholy and the Romance Quest 220
11. Conclusion: La Belle Dame Sans Merci: Romance and the Dream of “Language Strange” 261
12. Notes 279
13. Bibliography 341
14. Index 353