from
A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism and Philology
http://www.unizar.es/departamentos/filologia_inglesa/garciala/bibliography.html
by José Ángel García Landa
(University of Zaragoza, Spain)
Robert Burton (1577-1640)
(English scholar, Oxford U)
Works
Burton, Robert. The Anatomy of Melancholy. 1621, 1638.
_____. THE / ANATOMY OF / MELANCHOLY. / What it is, With all the kinds causes, / symptomes, prognostickes & severall cures of it. / In three Partitions, with their seerall / Sections, members / subsectins. / Philosophically, Medicinally: / Historically, opened & cut up. / BY / Democritus Junior / With a Satyricall Preface, Conducing / to the following Discourse. / The Sixt. Edition. Corrected and / augmented by the Author / Omne tulit punctum qui miscuit vtile dulci. / []Illustrations: woodcuts of solitude, Democritus, love melancholy, Hypocondriacus, superstition, a madman…] OXFORD / Printed for / Henry Cripps [n.d.]
_____. Anatomy of Melancholy, What it is, with all the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms, Prognostics and Several Cures of it, Philosophically, Medicinally Historically opened and cut up. 11th ed. 2 vols. Walker, etc. 1813.
_____. The Anatomy of Melancholy. (Everyman's Library). London: Dent, 1932.
_____. The Anatomy of Melancholy. 3 vols. in 1. London: Dent, 1936.*
_____. Anatomy of Melancholy. (Bohn Library). 1927.
_____. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it is, with all the kinds, causes, symptoms, prognostickes and severall cures of it. Ed. Holbrook Jackson. New York: Random House, 1977.
_____. The Anatomy of Melancholy. Ed. Thomas C. Faulkner, Nicolas K. Kiessling and Rhonda L. Blair. 2 vols. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1989-90.
_____. The Anatomy of Melancholy, vol. 4: Commentary up to Part 1, Section 2, Member 3, Subsection 15, 'Misery of Schollers'. (Oxford English Texts). Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998.
_____. The Anatomy of Melancholy. Ed. Holbrook Jackson New York Review Books, 2001.
_____. From The Anatomy of Melancholy. (Introd. and "Love Melancholy"). 1621, 1651. In The Norton Anthology of English Literature. Ed. M. H. Abrams, Stephen Greenblatt, et al. New York: Norton, 1999. 1560-69.*
_____. "Anatomy of Melancholy." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 22 August 2011.* (Burton's preface).
http://vanityfea.blogspot.com/2011/08/anatomy-of-melancholy.html
2011
_____. Some Anatomies of Melancholy. (Penguin Great Ideas). London: Penguin, 2008.
Criticism
Daiches, David. "The Three B's: Bacon, Burton, Browne." From A Critical History of English Literature. In García Landa, Vanity Fea Nov. 2014.*
http://vanityfea.blogspot.com.es/2014/11/bacon-and-browne.html
2014
Elsky, Martin. Authorizing Words: Speech, Writing and Print in the English Renaissance. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1989. (Speech, Space of Textuality, Herbert's Hieroglyph, Bacon as a publisher, The Authority of Burton).
Fish, Stanley. Self-Consuming Artifacts: The Experience of Seventeenth-Century Literature. Berkeley: U of California P; London: Routledge, 1972. (On Bacon, Burton, Browne, Herbert, Bunyan and Milton).
Gowland, Angus. The Worlds of Renaissance Melancholy: Robert Burton in Context. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2006.
Holland, Philip. Anatomy of Melancholy and Menippean Satire, Humanist and English. Ph.D. diss. U of London, 1979.
Jackson, Holbrook. From "Introduction" to The Anatomy of Melancholy. 1932. viii-xvii. Rpt. in The Critical Perspective: Volume 3: Elizabethan-Caroline. Ed. Harold Bloom. (The Chelsea House Library of Literary Criticism). New York: Chelsea House, 1986. 1525-33.*
Lund, Mary Ann. Melancholy, Medicine and Religion in Early Modern England: Reading The Anatomy of Melancholy. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2010.
Lyons, Bridget Gellert. Voices of Melancholy: Studies in Literary Treatments of Melancholy in Renaissance England. London: Routledge, 1971.
MacCarthy, Desmond. "Robert Burton." In MacCarthy, Portraits. 1931. Rpt. in English Critical Essays: Twentieth Century. 1st. series. Ed. Phyllis M. Jones. London: Oxford UP, 1933. 231-38.*
Porter, Roy. Madness: A Brief History. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2003.
Radden, Jennifer, ed. The Nature of Melancholy: From Aristotle to Kristeva. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2000.
Sáez Hidalgo, Ana. "Democritus Junior to Nowadays Reader: Problemas en la traducción de tecnicismos en la Anatomy of Melancholy de Robert Burton." MA diss. Universidad de Valladolid.
Sawday, Jonathan. "Shapeless Elegance: Robert Burton's Anatomy of Knowledge." In English Renaissance Prose: History, Language, and Politics. Ed. Neil Rhodes. (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies 164). Tempe, 1997.
Schmidt, Jeremy. Melancholy and the Care of the Soul: Religion, Moral Philosophy and Madness in Early Modern England. Ashgate, 2007.
Sullivan, Erin. "Melancholy, Medicine and the Arts." The Lancet 372 (13 Sept. 2008): 884-5.
Trevor, Douglas. The Poetics of Melancholy in Early Modern England. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2004.
Webber, Joan. From "Robert Burton: The Anatomy of Democritus, Jr." From Webber, The Eloquent "I": Style and Self in Seventeenth-Century Prose. 1968. 80-105. Rpt. in The Critical Perspective: Volume 3: Elizabethan-Caroline. Ed. Harold Bloom. (The Chelsea House Library of Literary Criticism). New York: Chelsea House, 1986. 1533-42.*
_____. The Eloquent "I": Style and Self in Seventeenth-Century Prose. 1968.
Zschirnt, Christiane. "7. Civilización. Baldassare Castiglione: El cortesano. Robert Burton: Anatomía de la melancolía. Molière: Comedias. Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Discurso sobre las ciencias y las artes. Denis Diderot: El sobrino de Rameau. Thomas Mann: Los Buddenbrook. Theodor W. Adorno y Max Horkheimer: Dialéctica de la Ilustración. Elias Norbert: El proceso de la civilización." In Zschirnt, Libros: Todo lo que hay que leer. Madrid: Santillana-Taurus, 2004. 157-84.*
Audio
Bragg, Melvyn, et al. "The Anatomy of Melancholy." (In Our Time). BBC Radio 4 12 May 2011.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b010y30m
2013
Internet resources
"Robert Burton." Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.*
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Burton_%28scholar%29
2013