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