The Gendering of Melancholia : Feminism, Psychoanalysis, and the Symbolics of Loss in Renaissance Literature /

The pantheon of renowned melancholics--from Shakespeare's Hamlet to Walter Benjamin--includes no women, an absence that in Juliana Schiesari's view points less to a dearth of unhappy women in patriarchal culture than to the lack of significance accorded to women's grief. Through penet...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Schiesari, Juliana (Author)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press [2018]
Series:Cornell paperbacks.
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctv3s8nsx