A User's Guide to MelancholyA User's Guide to Melancholy takes Robert Burton's encyclopaedic masterpiece The Anatomy of Melancholy (first published in 1621) as a guide to one of the most perplexing, elusive, attractive, and afflicting diseases of the Renaissance. Burton's Anatomy is perhaps the largest, strangest, and most unwieldy self help book ever written. Engaging with the rich cultural and literary framework of melancholy, this book traces its causes, symptoms, and cures