The book consists of nine chapters devoted to representations of melancholia in 19th-century art and literature. The book not only provides a survey of images and modes of behaviour of 19th-century individuals, but also discusses the meanings of melancholia as they appeared in European culture over time.

Autorentext

Piotr niedziewski is Assistant Professor in the Department of Romanticism of the Polish Studies Institute at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznä. He has authored Mallarmé Norwid. Le silence et la modernité poétique en France et en Pologne, published in Poland (2008) and France (2009), Melancholijne spojrzenie (2011) and Elegijna wiadomo romantyków (2015). He is Editor-in-Chief of «Poznäskie Studia Polonistyczne. Seria Literacka».

Inhalt

Melancholia - 19th-century art and literature - Images and modes of behaviour - Rousseau - Chateaubriand - Senancour - Amiel - Macpherson - Turner - Mallarmé - Madame de Staël - Delacroix - Flaubert - Baudelaire - Balzac - Hasenclever