Aus dem Inhalt:
The Tradition of Genial Melancholy
Critical Reaction to Genial Melancholy
Melancholic Enthusiasm and Divination in England
The Mad Melancholic between Ridicule and Charity: Views of Luther, Erasmus and Cervantes
The Nexus of Witchcraft, Male Impotence and Melancholy in Renaissance Thought
Melancholy, Utopia and Arcadia
Melancholic Divination and Cure of Melancholy in Shakespeare
Milton’s Pleasures of Melancholy