Melancholy and Culture
Diseases of the Soul in Golden Age Spain
Author(s) Roger Bartra
Language: English
Series: Iberian and Latin American Studies
- June 2008 · 288 pages ·216x138mm
- · Hardback - 9780708320105
Focuses on the subject of 'melancholy madness' in Spain. This work demonstrates that the subject of melancholy in the Spanish Golden Age is an indispensable link in a chain which may help us to understand the appearance of sadness and malcontent in Europe at the dawn of modernity.