The Anatomy of Melancholy: Commentary on the Third Partition, Together with Biobibliographical and Topical Indexes

by Robert Burton, J. B. Bamborough, Martin Dodsworth

Overview

This, the final volume of the Clarendon Press edition of Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, contains commentary on the Third Partition, in which Burton considers two especial forms of the disease, Love and Religious Melancholy. The volume includes an index which gives biographical and bibliographical information concerning the more than 1550 authorities cited in the Anatomy, most of whom are little known today. Also included are an index of the major topics discussed in the Anatomy, and a complete bibliography of all the works mentioned in the commentary.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198184867
Publisher:	OUP Oxford
Publication date:	12/28/2000
Series:	Oxford English Texts Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	480
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

Washington State University

Washington State University

Oxford University

Table of Contents

Abbreviations
Note to Readers
Commentary to Partition 3
Biobibliography of Authors and Works Cited in the Anatomy
Bibliography of Works Cited in the Commentary
Index of Topics Discussed in the Anatomy

Editorial Reviews

Praise for earlier volumes: "This excellent volume of commentary.... a work on the grand scale, a magisterial counterpoint to the magnificent edition of the text.... There are numerous examples of detective persistence and scholarly insight."—Peter Davidson, IReview of English Studies'

"Magisterial...one rejoices that Burton has at last found editors of this stamp.... admirably level-headed introduction."—A. D. Nuttall, London Review of Books'

From the Publisher

<:st>This work is cited in It is one of the major documents of modern European civilization, a survey not only of melancholy in all its myriad forms, but also of humanity's endless efforts to assuage it. First published in 1621, the book was an immediate popular success. The New York Review Books edition was edited by Holbrook Jackson in 1932. This new edition contains a new introduction by William Gass, director of the International Writer's Center. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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