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Book SynopsisTilting the English Renaissance against the present moment, The Melancholy Assemblage examines how the interpretive experience of emotion produces social bonds. Placing readings of early modern painting and literature in conversation with psychoanalytic theory and assemblage theory, this book argues that, far from isolating its sufferers, melancholy brings people together.
Trade Review"In this stimulating, inventive, and moving volume by one of Shakespeare studies' most brilliant and original emerging voices, Drew Daniel uses the history of melancholy in order to map the haptic loops and iconic postures that bind together thinking, feeling, and making in art and life. Along the way he answers questions that really matter, such as how melancholy forges friendships among misanthropes, and why fashion makes us sad." -- -Julia Reinhard Lupton author of Thinking with Shakespeare: Essays on Politics and Life "... a powerfully engaging and deeply rewarding study of melancholy in English Renaissance literature." -- -Graham Hammill University at Buffalo, SUNY "In 'The Melancholy Assemblage: Affect and Epistemology in the English Renaissance', Daniel makes the kids of vibrant connections between earlier and later theoretical regimes that Floyd Wilson largely eschews." -Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 "This is an alert and edgy work by a major new voice in Renaissance studies." -Julia Reinhard Lupton, SEL (Recent STudies in Tudor and Stuart Drama)
