%0 Journal Article
%T Competing Melancholies: (En-)Gendering Discourses of Selfhood in Early Modern English Literature
%A Rainer EMIG
%J E-rea : Revue ¨¦lectronique d¡¯¨¦tudes sur le Monde Anglophone
%D 2006
%I 
%R 10.4000/erea.412
%X When the shepherdess Urania in Lady Mary Wroth¡¯s The Countess of Montgomery¡¯s Urania (1621) enters a cave where she hopes to be alone with her sorrows, she is in for a nasty surprise: there is already another occupant. A man who calls himself Perissus, the lost one, has stretched himself out on a bed of leaves and is waiting for death. What then ensues is a near-comical quarrel for the right to the cave with each candidate trying to come up with the most convincing claim to suffer the most:¡°O...
%U http://erea.revues.org/412