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- Title
"The glass, the school, the book": The Anatomy of Melancholy and the Early Stuart University of Oxford.
- Authors
Anglin, Emily
- Abstract
The article focuses on the ideas of writer Robert Burton highlighting his book "The Anatomy of Melancholy," and the changes the University of Oxford underwent during the James Stuart's reign. It discusses Burton's contributions to the university's Bodleian Library where he wrote and rewrote his encyclopedic work. It mentions the works of several authors such as "Robert Burton's Geography of Melancholy," by Annie S. Chapple, and "Oxford and the Early Stuart Polity," by Kenneth Fincham.
- Subjects
BURTON, Robert; ANATOMY of Melancholy, The (Book); UNIVERSITY of Oxford; AUTHORS; BODLEIAN Library; FINCHAM, Kenneth
- Publication
English Studies in Canada, 2009, Vol 35, Issue 2/3, p55
- ISSN
0317-0802
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/esc.2009.a404820