The Gendering of Melancholia by Juliana Schiesari
The pantheon of renowned melancholics-from Shakespeare's Hamlet to Walter Benjamin-includes no women, an absence that in Juliana Schiesari's view points less to a dearth of unhappy women in patriarchal culture than to the lack of significance accorded...
"A masterful interweaving of diverse strains of contemporary criticism which offers a powerful and consistent feminist perspectiveJuliana Schiesari's strong analyses of texts by women writers are among the many delights of this book. She puts together pieces of a puzzle—with startling implications not only for our reading of the past but also for our understanding of our own historical moment. This is a major accomplishment." -- Madelon Sprengnether, University of Minnesota
Juliana Schiesari is Assistant Professor of Italian at the University of California, Davis.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780801499715 |
| ISBN 10 | 0801499712 |
| Title | The Gendering of Melancholia |
| Author | Juliana Schiesari |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cornell University Press |
| Year published | 1992-05-26 |
| Number of pages | 264 |
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