02658nam 2200601 450 991081688130332120170821193040.01-61149-649-71-61149-500-8(CKB)2550000001251052(EBL)1659898(SSID)ssj0001132403(PQKBManifestationID)12411030(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001132403(PQKBWorkID)11154532(PQKB)11630888(MiAaPQ)EBC1659898(EXLCZ)99255000000125105220140411h20142014 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrInspiration in the age of enlightenment /Sarah EronNewark, Delaware :University of Delaware Press,2014.©20141 online resource (267 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-61149-499-0 1-306-54812-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 AuthorInspiration 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 refEnglish literature18th centuryHistory and criticismEnthusiasm in literatureInspiration in literatureAesthetics, British18th centuryEnglish literatureHistory and criticism.Enthusiasm in literature.Inspiration in literature.Aesthetics, British820.9820.9/005820.9005Eron Sarah1982-1625039MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910816881303321Inspiration in the age of enlightenment3960314UNINA