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

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

Hawes, Clement

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Series: Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature a, Book 29

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0521022029
ISBN13: 9780521022026
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Nov 3 2005
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.84
Height: 0.58 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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 fellows enthusiasts to the work of Jonathan Swift and Christopher Smart. Its account of the dominant culture's ridicule of enthusiastic writing (an attitude that persists in twentieth-century literary history and criticism) provides a powerful and daring critique of pervasive assumptions about madness and sanity in literature.

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