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‘Enthusiasts’ and ‘Fanatics’: The Decembrists as a Case Study in French Influence on Russian Culture, Emotions and Thought

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract Participants in Russia's 1825 Decembrist uprising against the Tsarist regime were, quite literally, a case study in French cultural influence upon Russia. This is particularly true as it relates to Russia's emotional cultures. Although this has not, traditionally, been the primary focus of historical analysis of this event (in Soviet or ...
ADAM COKER
wiley   +1 more source

Melancholy: literature

open access: yesMatraga, 2018
Book review of: COSTA LIMA, Luiz. Melancolia: literatura. São Paulo: EdUnesp, 2017.
Eduardo da Silva de Freitas
doaj   +1 more source

The poet’s melancholy

open access: yesMedicine Anthropology Theory, 2020
This article considers the relationship between depressed affect, a long-term refugee situation, and poetry among Afghan refugees in the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Zuzanna Olszewska
doaj   +1 more source

The Mysterious Stranger and Modern Enchantment

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sociological accounts of modernity have long emphasized rationalization, alienation, and the attenuation of affective intensity. While these diagnoses capture crucial dynamics of modern social order, they leave underexplored a persistent and generative dimension of social life: enchantment.
Dmitry Kurakin
wiley   +1 more source

Casting Characters in the Dark Ink of Melancholy: Figures of Dissent and Imprisonment in Seventeenth-Century Literature

open access: yesEtudes Epistémè, 2015
Seventeenth-century English character-books were popular collections of short essays cataloguing the different types or “characters” of the city. These octavo or duodecimo pamphlets belonged neither to the field of theology nor to that of medical studies.
Claire Labarbe
doaj   +1 more source

Patients With Atypical Symptoms of Depression Respond Better to Lithium Augmentation Than Patients Without Atypical Symptoms

open access: yesActa Psychiatrica Scandinavica, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Understanding the differences in treatment response between subtypes of major depressive disorder (MDD) may help to prevent lengthy trial‐and‐error processes by identifying effective treatment options. The aim of the study was to investigate the impact of atypical features of MDD (MDD‐A) on the response to lithium augmentation (LA)
Hannah Buchbauer   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Spectacle and Spy Stories: The 1954 Royal Commission on Espionage

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Menzies government's 1954 royal commission, established to investigate Soviet espionage in Australia, is well known as the backdrop to the Labor Party split. It saw opposition leader H.V. Evatt's demise and ushered in an almost 20‐year period of Liberal Party governance.
Ebony Nilsson
wiley   +1 more source

L’invention de la mélancolie religieuse ? Quelques réflexions sur un concept pluriel

open access: yesEtudes Epistémè, 2015
This article offers some historiographical and methodological reflections on the evolution of the notion of religious melancholy back from its “invention” in 1621, true or alleged it may be, by Robert Burton with his The Anatomy of Melancholy.
Lisa Roscioni
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Toward a Politics of (In)Fertility: Reproductive Debility in Africa

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sub‐Saharan Africa has some of the highest estimated rates of infertility or involuntary childlessness in the world, leading epidemiologists to refer to parts of the region as the “infertility belt.” The medicalization of infertility and the situating of assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) as the treatment for infertility have siphoned ...
Tessa Moll
wiley   +1 more source

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