Mania and Literary Style: The Rhetoric of Enthusiasm from the Ranters to Christopher Smart (Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Mania and Literary Style: The Rhetoric of Enthusiasm from the Ranters to Christopher Smart (Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought) Book

This highly original study of the 'manic style' in enthusiastic writing of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries 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. Its account of the dominant culture's ridicule of enthusiastic writing (an attitude which persists in twentieth-century literary history and criticism) provides a powerful and daring critique of pervasive assumptions about madness and sanity in literature.Read More

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  • 052155022X
  • 9780521550222
  • Clement Hawes
  • 26 January 1996
  • Cambridge University Press
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 256
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