Lawlor Clark
English Division, School of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Northumbria, Lipman Building, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 8ST, UK.
Gesnerus. 2006;63(1-2):103-12.
The paper deals with Clarissa's wasting combination of love and religious melancholy, and the way in which ailments of the mind have an immediate effect on the body in this period. George Cheyne's theories of melancholy and hypochondria explain at least some of the mechanisms by which the eighteenth century understood this phenomenon. 'Clarissa' is an important text because it influenced so many later representations of melancholy, especially as it is gendered feminine in Richardson's newly feminised discourse of sensibility.
该论文探讨了克拉丽莎那爱与宗教忧郁交织的萎靡状态，以及在那个时期精神疾病对身体产生直接影响的方式。乔治·切恩关于忧郁症和疑病症的理论至少解释了一些18世纪人们理解这一现象的机制。《克拉丽莎》是一部重要的文本，因为它影响了后来诸多对忧郁症的描绘，尤其是在理查森新塑造的女性化情感话语中，忧郁症被赋予了女性特质。
