This book explores the history and continuing relevance of melancholia as an amorphous but richly suggestive theme in literature, music, and visual culture, as well as philosophy and the history of ideas.

Andrea Bubenik is Senior Lecturer in Art History at The University of Queensland, Australia.

Introduction: The Persistence of Melancholia

[Andrea Bubenik]

Part I: Resonances of Melencolia I (1514)

1. Temporal Turbulence: In Praise of Anachronism

[Mieke Bal]

2. Between the Angel and the Dog: Dürer's Melancholy Community

[Drew Daniel]

Part II: Objects of Melancholia

3. Musical Responses to Dürer's Melencolia I

[Denis Collins]

4. The Shape of Things to Come: The Melancholy of Dürer's Polyhedron

[Andrea Bubenik]

5. The Eyes, Brain and Heart of the Viewer: Love Melancholy & Renaissance Portraiture

[Laurinda Dixon]

Part III: Landscapes of Melancholia

6. The Melancholic Horizon in Australian Art

[Allison Holland]

7. Sebald's 'Under the Sign of Saturn' and English Hauntology

[Rex Butler]

Part IV: Politics and Morals of Melancholia

8. Melancholia's Mirror: Moral Conscience in Australian Art

[Sally Butler]

9. Against a Melancholic Art History: The Afterlife of Images

[Chari Larsson]

10. After the End: Melancholia and the Politics of Time

[Amelia Barikin]

Conclusion: Melancholia: Past, Present, Future?

[Michael Ann Holly]