 | The Gendering of Melancholia: Feminism, Psychoanalysis, and the Symbolics of Loss in Renaissance Literature Subjects: Psychoanalysis and literature; Feminism and literature; Loss (Psychology) in literature; Depression Mental in literature; Grief in literature; European literature -- Renaissance 1450–1600 -- History and criticism; 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... Juliana Schiesari is Assistant Professor of Italian at the University of California, Davis. |
