The Anatomy of Melancholy
Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Science, Other Sciences, History, Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, Health & Well Being, Psychology
| Author: | Robert Burton | ISBN: | 9780141395234 |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd | Publication: | November 7, 2019 |
| Imprint: | Penguin | Language: | English |
| Author: | Robert Burton |
| ISBN: | 9780141395234 |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Publication: | November 7, 2019 |
| Imprint: | Penguin |
| Language: | English |
A new Penguin Classics edition of Burton's masterpiece - ostensibly a guidebook to melancholia or depression, in reality 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.
A new Penguin Classics edition of Burton's masterpiece - ostensibly a guidebook to melancholia or depression, in reality 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.
