As a psychiatric term ‘depression’ dates back only as far as the mid-nineteenth century. Before then a wide range of terms were used: ‘melancholy’ carried enormous weight, and was one of the two confirmed forms of eighteenth-century insanity. This four-volume set is the first large-scale study of depression across an extensive period.
Introduction, Select Bibliography, Anon., Thee Lovers Mad Fits and
Fancies ([ c. 16635]), Anon., Thee Discontented Plow-Man ([ c. 16749]),
Anon., Thee Love-Sick Maid; or Cordelias Lament ([ c. 1670]), Anon., Thee
Lovesick Maid of Waping ([ c. 16828]), Charles Gildon, Thee Post-Boy Robbd
of his Mail (1706), Edward Ward, Nuptial Dialogues and Debates (1710),
Theomas DUrfey, Thee Comical History of Don Quixote (1729), Theomas Gordon,
Thee Humourist. Essays upon Several Subjects (1730), Anon., Thee Hyp (1737),
Wetenhall Wilkes, Thee Humours of the Black-Dog (1737), Anon., Thee Temple of
Dulness (1745), Theomas Sheridan, Thee Simile: or, Woman a Cloud. A Poem
(1748), Anon., Society of the Court of Comus (1757), Joseph Bromehead, Thee
Melancholy Student. An Elegiac Poem ([ 1765/9]), Ashley Cowper, To a Lady
(1767), Pierre John Grosley, A Tour to London (1772), [ Matthew Green], Thee
Wag: or Life of Humour, and the Soul of Whim. Thee Spleen An Epistle
(1773), J. M. [ James Murray], Thee Travels of the Imagination. A True
Journey from Newcastle to London (1773), Anon., Mirth, A Poem in Answer to
Wartons Pleasures of Melancholy ([ 1774]), George Colman, Thee Spleen, or
Islington Spa (1776), John Rubrick [ William Kenrick], Thee Spleen, or the Off
spring of Folly (1776), H. Bate Dudley [ Sir Henry Bate], Thee Magic Picture,
A Play (1783), Robert Sadler, Wanley Penson; or, Thee Melancholy Man (1792),
Edward Walsh, Ode to Hypochondria (1793), Theomas Bellamy, Sadaski; or,
Thee Wandering Penitent (1798), vi Depression and Melancholy, 16601800:
Volume 4 John Macgowen, Infernal Conference, or, Dialogues wiTheDevils
(1799), Anon., Thee Budget of Momus (1800), C.C., A Melancholy but True Story
([ 1800]), Charles Kemble, Thee Point of Honour (1800), Anon., Thee Man of
Spleen, Thee Governess, or Evening Amusements at a Boarding School (1800),
Editorial Notes, Index
Leigh Wetherall Dickson, Allan Ingram, David Walker, Anita O'Connell, Michelle Faubert
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