… as melancholy. ‘ 4 4 . Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, ed. Holbrook Jackson (New York: New York Review of Books, 2001), ‘The Author’s Abstract of Melancholy’, p. 11. Part of what is identified here is a strongly self-indulgent …
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… dark Satanic Mills?'. David Erdman (ed.), The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake (New York and London: Anchor Books, Doubleday, 1988), p. 95. However, Darwin’s network of sociability extended far beyond the boundaries of the …
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… century, popular among well-to-do families, was the establishing of a library in the house which would be filled with books. These might not necessarily be read but would confer status on the home, while the room would be used for …
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