Contents
Le Spectateur européen 10
Before Depression: the Representation and Culture of Depression in
Britain and Europe, 1660-1800
Figures et culture de la dépression en Grande-Bretagne et en
Europe, 1660-1800
Introduction by Clark Lawlor
Michelle Faubert (Manitoba)
Nathaniel Cotton and James Beattie: Graveyard Verse as Psychological
Therapy for the Melancholy
Charlotte Holden (Northumbria)
"Contraries often prove Remedies" - Laughter as a Cure for
Melancholy in Eighteenth-Century Medicine
William Roberts (Independent Scholar)
Dr Brown's Cure for Depression: a Paper on The Cure of Saul, an Oratorio
by Dr John Brown, 1715-66
Sophie Vasset (Paris 7)
Medicina Musica: un remède à la mélancholie des
rois?
Ramona Wray (Queen's, Belfast)
Depressive Patterns and Textual Solutions in Seventeenth-Century Women's
Autobiography
Heather Meek (Sainte Anne)
Creative Hysteria and the Intellectual Woman of Feeling
Melinda Alliker Rabb (Brown)
Is 'Before Depression' Before Paranoia?
Jeremy Schmidt (Victoria)
Before Depression, the Very Idea: Spaces of Emergence
Nigel Wood (Loughborough)
The "Official" and "Unofficial" Spleen
Madeleine Descargues-Grant (Valenciennes)
Burton and Sons: the Masks of Melancholy
Sabine Wendel (Münster)
A "Stranger to the Spleen?": Jonathan Swift and Depression
Le Spectateur européen 11
Before Depression: the Representation and Culture of Depression in
Britain and Europe, 1660-1800
Figures et culture de la dépression en Grande-Bretagne et en
Europe, 1660-1800
Introduction by Valérie Maffre
Peter Sabor (McGill)
Creative and Uncreative Gloom: Frances Burney and Alexander d'Arblay
Diane Buie (Northumbria)
Johnson's 'Unhappy Valley': Melancholy in Rasselas
Matthew Bell (King's, London)
"More than tears and moonlight": Forms of melancholy mimesis
after Burton
John Baker (Paris 1)
'A Vapour'd Muse': Figures and Voices of Melancholy in Some Eighteenth-Century
Poems
Valérie Maffre (Montpellier)
Mélancolie et séduction dans quelques écrits du
XVIIIe siècle
Hélène Dachez (Toulouse)
Réécritures du suicide par amour dans Pamela, Clarissa
et The Wanderer
Sarah Skoronski (McGill)
Wollstonecraft's Maria and Postpartum Depression in the Eighteenth Century
Pauline Morris (Northumbria)
"Few people can bear the unhappy": Sarah Scott and the Social
Context of Depression in Millenium Hall (1762)
Joanne Holland (McGill)
Diagnosing Regicide: Margaret Nicholson, Madness, and Melancholy in
the Eighteenth Century
Mascha Gemmeke (Griefswald)
"A Lassitude of Existence Creeps Sensibly upon Me": Gloominess,
Low spirits and Depression at the Court of George III