03555nam 22007212 450 99624812630331620160415162638.01-139-08565-40-511-55348-X2027/heb07596(CKB)2660000000000223(SSID)ssj0000333353(PQKBManifestationID)11256998(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000333353(PQKBWorkID)10356090(PQKB)11766757(UkCbUP)CR9780511553486(MiAaPQ)EBC4639933(dli)HEB07596(MiU)MIU01000000000000007428611(EXLCZ)99266000000000022320090513d1996|||| uy| 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierMania and literary style the rhetoric of enthusiasm from the Ranters to Christopher Smart /Clement Hawes[electronic resource]Cambridge :Cambridge University Press,1996.1 online resource (xii, 243 pages) digital, PDF file(s)Cambridge studies in eighteenth-century English literature and thought ;29Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).0-521-02202-9 0-521-55022-X Includes bibliographical references and index.pt. 1. Defiant voice -- pt. 2. Patrician diagnosis -- pt. 3. Challenging liminality.This highly original study of the 'manic style' in enthusiastic writing of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries identifies a literary tradition and 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. Clement Hawes offers a counterweight to recent work which has addressed the subject of literature and madness from the viewpoint of contemporary psychological medicine, putting forward instead a stylistic and rhetorical analysis. He argues that the writings of dissident 'enthusiastic' groups are based in social antagonisms; and his 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.Cambridge studies in eighteenth-century English literature and thought ;29.Mania & Literary StyleEnglish literature18th centuryHistory and criticismEnthusiasm in literatureLiterature and mental illnessGreat BritainHistory18th centuryLiterature and societyGreat BritainHistory18th centuryEnglish language18th centuryRhetoricEnglish language18th centuryStyleLevellersRantersEnglish literatureHistory and criticism.Enthusiasm in literature.Literature and mental illnessHistoryLiterature and societyHistoryEnglish languageRhetoric.English languageStyle.Levellers.Ranters.820.9/005Hawes Clement221713UkCbUPUkCbUPBOOK996248126303316Mania and literary style567109UNISA