Mania and Literary Style: The Rhetoric of Enthusiasm from the Ranters to Christopher Smart - Rilegato

Hawes, Clement

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ISBN 10: 052155022X ISBN 13: 9780521550222

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 1996

Riassunto

This study analyzes 'enthusiastic' writing from the Ranters to Swift, and explores madness and sanity in literature.

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Recensione

"The approach is lively and engaging, context-rich and historically immersed, imaginative and responsive to the realities of the discourse community." Choice

"Hawes' sensitive reading of enthusiastic language and his obvious pleasure in its iconoclastic mania to loosen and unsettle, to fragment and recombine, deepens our understanding of early modern literary culture." Anne L. Cotterill, Albion

"...Mania and Literary Style buzzes with interest...This book should be read..." Nigel Smith, Modern Philology

"Clement Hawes's outstanding new book on the history of literary enthusiasm has arrived. Mania and Literary Style is a provocative and exciting account." Studies in Romanticism

Descrizione del libro

This highly original study identifies a line of influence running from the radical visionary and prophetic writing of the Ranters and their fellow enthusiasts to the work of Jonathan Swift and Christopher Smart, and offers a powerful critique of pervasive assumptions about madness and sanity in literature.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1996
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 052155022X
• ISBN 13: 9780521550222
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 256
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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