1926
DOI: 10.1093/res/os-ii.7.257
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The English Malady of the Eighteenth Century

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“…or~~is~d: as a disease with elaborate physiological explanations and as a sentiment cultivated by the elite (Babb, 1951). Dubbed for over a century as the English Malady or the Spleen, its status as a disease of the ~~~t~~i class was based on the idea that it was an attribute of superior minds, of genius (Doughty, 1926). A number of medical historians suggest that this was an era in which Europe developed an immense interest in Melancholia (Babb, 1951;Clarke, 1975;Delumeau, 1990).…”
Section: The Popularity Of Melancholiamentioning
confidence: 99%
“…or~~is~d: as a disease with elaborate physiological explanations and as a sentiment cultivated by the elite (Babb, 1951). Dubbed for over a century as the English Malady or the Spleen, its status as a disease of the ~~~t~~i class was based on the idea that it was an attribute of superior minds, of genius (Doughty, 1926). A number of medical historians suggest that this was an era in which Europe developed an immense interest in Melancholia (Babb, 1951;Clarke, 1975;Delumeau, 1990).…”
Section: The Popularity Of Melancholiamentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The eighteenth century accelerated the secularization of despair and suicide, transforming them into the faddish preoccupations of hack journalists and fashionable writers (Barthel, 1960;Sena, 1973;Doughty, 1926). When John Wesley attempted to reintroduce the odour of brimstone into the concept by calling in 1790 for the bodies of suicides to be publicly hanged in a gibbet, the Morning Herald responded: 'The pious John Wesley has proposed a remedy for suicide, by gibbeting the unhappy victims of despondency.…”
Section: Suicide In Religious and Ethical Thoughtmentioning
confidence: 99%