Recensione:
'impeccable ... we can be immensely grateful to Kiessling, together with Thomas C. Faulkner and Rhonda Blair, for producing the first part of a projected five-volume scholarly edition of the Anatomy ...As well as providing foundations for future investigators, this publication contains a valuable scholarly Introduction by J.B. Bamborough.' Roy Porter, Wellcome Institute, Medical History 34(4):Oct '90
we have an authoritative edition of one of the most important, as well as compendious, works of seventeenth century literature and science...The editors and the Oxford Press deserve our thanks in bringing this giant task to completion in a readable form...for literary scholars and specialists, it can no longer be said that Burton 'awaits his editor' (Renaissance Quarterly)
'It is a great pleasure to congratulate all concerned with the Washington State/Oxford Anatomy of Melancholy on the appearance of the first two volumes of this eagerly awaited edition ... the publication of Volume I by 1989 is an impressive achievement in itself. A decade ago they, their associates, Washington State University, and Oxford University Press had the foresight, determination, and faith to embark on a project which, immensely valuable as it is in itself in providing us with this splendid edition of Burton's masterpiece, has also opened up new territory to modern textual editing.' Jonquil Bevan, University of Edinburgh, Review of English Studies, Feb '92
'two splendid volumes, fine examples not only of scholarship but of the bookmaker's craft - handsomely printed on heavy paper, exquisitely bound ... Such an edition represents years of labor by a number of editors, and it will be of permanent value in any scholarly library.'R.V. Young, North Carolina State University, Journal of English and Germanic Philology, Volume 91, No. 4, October 1992
the physical representation of the text...is generally excellent. The printing of the textual notes is just beautiful, with each textual note getting its own line! Doubtless, the Clarendon edition of Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy will be the standard text of the work for a long time and greatly benefit critics and students. The bibliographical work shows great care and thought, and the textual apparatus is as comprehensive as a modern publisher is likely to produce. (Text)
Contenuti:
- List of illustrations
- J.B. Bamborough: Introduction (biographical)
- Textual introductionThe Anatomy of Melancholy
- The argument of the frontispiece
- Frontispiece
- Dedication
- Democritus Junior ad Librum suum
- The Authors Abstract of Melancholy
- Democritus Junior to the Reader
- Lectori male feriato
- Heraclite fleas, miseero sic convenit aevo
- The Synopsis of the First Partition
- The First Partition
- Textual Notes
- Democritus Junior to the Reader
- The First òartition
- Index of persons
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