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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