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Record Nr.

UNINA9910816881303321

Autore

Eron Sarah <1982->

Titolo

Inspiration in the age of enlightenment / / Sarah Eron

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newark, Delaware : , : University of Delaware Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-61149-649-7

1-61149-500-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (267 p.)

Disciplina

820.9

820.9/005

820.9005

Soggetti

English literature - 18th century - History and criticism

Enthusiasm in literature

Inspiration in literature

Aesthetics, British - 18th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction; Chapter One: Amused and Bemused; Chapter Two: "Eyes that Must Eclipse"; Chapter Three: Curtain, Muse!; Chapter Four: Genius, Muse; Chapter Five: The "Unknown" and The "Unveiled"; Coda; Bibliography; Index; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

Inspiration in the Age of Enlightenment reconsiders theories of apostrophe and poetic authority to argue that the Augustan age created a new form of inspiration, one that not only changed the relationship of literary production to authority in the modern period but that also crucially contributes to defining the movement of secularization in literature from the Renaissance to Romanticism. By examining the formal mechanisms of invocation in Augustan literature, and by exploring a wider range of writers that extends beyond Swift and his vehement critique of enthusiasm, Eron charts a positive ref