02387nam 2200625 a 450 991082548490332120200520144314.00-8047-6426-3(CKB)1000000000002443(OCoLC)70769106(CaPaEBR)ebrary10015696(SSID)ssj0000278984(PQKBManifestationID)11234543(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000278984(PQKBWorkID)10259194(PQKB)10443242(MiAaPQ)EBC3037396(Au-PeEL)EBL3037396(CaPaEBR)ebr10015696(EXLCZ)99100000000000244319990302d1999 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrElations the poetics of enthusiasm in eighteenth-century Britain /Shaun Irlam1st ed.Stanford, Calif. Stanford University Pressc19991 online resource (298 p.) Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral--Johns Hopkins University).0-8047-3541-7 Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-277) and index.Elations rewrites the history of early-18th-century English literature around the politics and poetics of "Enthusiasm." It examines the aesthetic theory of the period, traces the evolution and differentiation of a poetic enthusiasm from religious enthusiasm, and reassesses the poetry of two poets very popular in their time: James Thomson and Edward Young.English poetry18th centuryHistory and criticismEnthusiasm in literatureDidactic poetry, EnglishHistory and criticismAesthetics, British18th centurySentimentalism in literatureSublime, The, in literatureEnglish poetryHistory and criticism.Enthusiasm in literature.Didactic poetry, EnglishHistory and criticism.Aesthetics, BritishSentimentalism in literature.Sublime, The, in literature.811/.509Irlam Shaun1959-1627286MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910825484903321Elations3963804UNINA