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Preface: From Boredom to Depression (From Philosophy to Psychology) / Josefa Ros Velasco (Harvard University, Cambridge); Part I: Spirituality and Depression from the Middle Ages to Modernity. Acedia and Its Relation to Depression / Derek McAllister (Baylor University, Texas) -- Depression in Ricardian Dream Visions / Nancy Ciccone (University of Colorado) -- Giambattista Vico and the Melancholy of History / Miriam Muccione (University of Chicago) -- Depression in the Literature of the Health Reform and Mental Hygiene Movement: An Example of Ellen G. White Writings / Pawel Zagozdon (Medical University of Gdansk, Poland); Part II: Secularization of Depression in Modern and Contemporary Literature. Nihilism, Depression, and Wholeheartedness: Metacognitive Strategies in 19th Century Literature / Søren Harnow Klausen (University of Southern Denmark) -- Can Melancholy Be Heroic? Walter Benjamin and the Vicissitudes of Melancholy / Shannon Hayes (Tennessee State University) -- Anhedonia, Dysthymia, and Tristasia: Depressed Characters in Alice McDermott's Novels / Gail Shanley Corso (Neumann University, Pennsylvania) -- Broken Promise: Depression as Ex-Gifted Girl Identity in Elizabeth Wurtzel's Prozac Nation / Nora Augustine (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) -- The Unclean Subject: Rethinking Gendered Depression in Singaporean Fiction / Hannah Ming Yit Ho (Universiti Brunei Darussalam); Part III: Narrations and Metaphors on Depression from and for the Clinical Practice / Inner Voices: Literary Realism and Psychoanalysis / Josie Billington (University of Liverpool) -- Rewriting Mecca: Late Life Depression in John Metcalf's "The Years in Exile" / Lucia Gagliese (York University, Ontario) -- This Aisle Has More Than Two Sides: Insights into Depression, Provided by Medical Doctors / Angelika Potempa (The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley) -- Metaphors of Depression in American Short Fiction / Ioana Unk (Independent Scholar, California) "The Faces of Depression in Literature brings together some of the most well-known specialists and scholars on the topic of depression in literature worldwide to offer a multidisciplinary approach concerning the philosophical, theological, and literary narratives of depression over time and discusses about their approximations to current, clinical understanding of MDD. Our goal is to clarify the background of depression by paying attention to its representation through these narratives and revalue them as means of acquiring knowledge in an interdisciplinary way. This is the first time that this well-experienced, diverse, and multidisciplinary group of specialists focused on the study of the antecedents of depression gather to promote a cross-border dialogue in order to overcome the recognized limitations of the current understanding of this topic. This is a pioneering initiative in filling the knowledge gap that still exists concerning the nature of depression from a multidisciplinary perspective that takes into account some cross-cutting narratives. This is the book to which researchers and academics from one end to the other will have to come in order to be updated and clarify their ideas concerning the antecedents of depression according to a wide variety of narratives in the past centuries and the contemporary ones. We want to give a voice to those forgotten manifestations of depression we can find in literature, philosophy, theology, and even early medical works. The Faces of Depression in Literature is for graduates and researchers on depression from a cultural and social point of view, including philosophers, historians, cultural theorists, literature and art experts and enthusiasts, and even artists and writers themselves, specialists in mental health and cognitive psychology, and anyone interested in better understanding human condition"--
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