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Article: Modernism and melancholia (1).
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- January 1, 2004
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Melancholia, a favorite subject in antiquity and the renaissance, is making a comeback. After the 2001 reissue of Robert Burton's 17th-century classic The Anatomy of Melancholy, 2002 saw the publication of The Nature of Melancholy: From Aristotle to Kristeva (edited by Jennifer Radden) and Anne Anlin Cheng's The Melancholy of Race. Now joining in is Cultures of the Death Drive: Melanie Klein and Modernist Melancholia, a volume about the object-relations psychoanalysis of Melanie Klein (1882-1960), literary modernism, and the unique cultural 'melancholia' of interwar Europe.
Shakespeare's line that "melancholy is the nurse of frenzy" serves as the book's epigraph, ...