"This River Leads to Saturn": The Paradoxes of Melancholy and Political States in Early Modern England

Anatomy of Melancholy argued argument authority Babel becomes Biathanatos body body-politic Bright Brutus Burton Cambridge University Press Casaubon Cassius castle cause chapter characters chorus Church civil commonwealth concern condition contemporary critics cure David Norbrook Democritus describes discontent discourse disease divine Donne's Early Modern England Edmund Spenser English extent fact figure Freud Giorgio Agamben History insofar interpretation John Donne Julius Caesar language literary Literature London madness malcontent Manoa matricide Meric Casaubon Milton mind mother narrator naturall nature notion perhaps Phantastes play poem poet poetic poetry political precisely Preface Princeton problem prophetic question radical Ranters readers reason rebellion recognize refers reform religious melancholy Renaissance rhetorical Robert Burton's Roman Rome Samson Agonistes sects seems sense sermons seventeenth century Shakespeare Shepheardes Calender Sigmund Freud Spenser stanza suggests suicide symptoms things Tower of Babel traditional Tragedy trans Treatise turn ultimately utopian words writing York