Performing Privacy And Gender in Early Modern Literature

Early modern autobiographies and diaries provide a unique insight into women's lives and how they remembered, interpreted and represented their experiences.

Lesel Dawson examines figures afflicted with erotic melancholy in early modern literature and provides a historical context for their malady. She discusses how the literary representation of lovesickness relates to issues of gender and identity, making a contribution to the fields of literature, gender, and medical history.