Contagious Texts Embodied: Melancholy Hermeneutics in Late Medieval and Early Modern Literature.

Author / Editor
Bubash, Connie K.

Title
Contagious Texts Embodied: Melancholy Hermeneutics in Late Medieval and Early Modern Literature.

Published
Ph.D. Dissertation. Pennsylvania State University, 2017. iv, 190 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International A82.01(E). Fully accessible via ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global and via https://etda.libraries.psu.edu/catalog/14869ckb5081; accessed August 24, 2025.

Description
Investigates notions of contagion, melancholy, and reader response in BD, Gower's "Confessio Amantis," Sidney's "Old Arcadia," Shakespeare's "As You Like It," and four early modern "self-help" texts.

Chaucer Subjects
Book of the Duchess