Anatomy of Melancholy
MIA KARTS BOOKS
Book details
- Author
- Robert Burton
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Category
- Philosophers
- Condition
- New
- ISBN-13
- 9780141192284
- ISBN-10
- 0141192283
- Vendor: Mia Karts
Anatomy of Melancholy
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ISBN: 0141192283
Author: Burton, Robert
Condition: New
Ostensibly a guidebook to melancholia or depression, Burton's masterpiece is really an all-encompassing examination of the human condition.
The Anatomy of Melancholy is the vast and only work by Robert Burton, the seventeenth-century English priest and scholar. It 'opens and cuts up' the condition of melancholy, or depression as we know it today, and in doing so explores a dizzying range of additional topics including goblins, beauty, the geography of America, digestion, the passions, alcohol and kissing. Burton believed that reading was a cure for melancholy, and so the book itself - one of the most unique and uncategorisable works of all time - can be seen as a tonic for the very condition it describes.
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