The Anatomy of Melancholy

by Burton, Robert; Gass, William H.

• ISBN13: 9780940322660
• ISBN10: 0940322668
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-04-30
• Publisher: NYRB Classics

Summary

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.

Author Biography

William H. Gass is the director of the International Writer's Center.

Table of Contents

Introduction	vii
Introduction to the 1932 Edition	xvii
Note on the Text	xxx
THE ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY
Democritus Junior to His Book	3	(4)
The Argument of the Frontispiece	7	(4)
The Author's Abstract of Melancholy	11	(4)
Democritus Junior to the Reader	15	(109)
To the Reader who Employs His Leisure III	124	(2)
THE FIRST PARTITION
The Synopsis of the First Partition	126	(315)
Of Diseases in General, and of Melancholy; with a Digression of Anatomy	130	(47)
Causes of Melancholy; with a Digression of Spirits	177	(205)
Symptoms of Melancholy	382	(47)
Prognostics of Melancholy	429	(12)
Notes	441