Mania and literary style : the rhetoric of enthusiasm from the Ranters to Christopher Smart / / Clement Hawes [[electronic resource]]
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| Autore: |
Hawes Clement
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| Titolo: |
Mania and literary style : the rhetoric of enthusiasm from the Ranters to Christopher Smart / / Clement Hawes [[electronic resource]]
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| Pubblicazione: | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 1996 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xii, 243 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
| Disciplina: | 820.9/005 |
| Soggetto topico: | English literature - 18th century - History and criticism |
| Enthusiasm in literature | |
| Literature and mental illness - Great Britain - History - 18th century | |
| Literature and society - Great Britain - History - 18th century | |
| English language - 18th century - Rhetoric | |
| English language - 18th century - Style | |
| Levellers | |
| Ranters | |
| Note generali: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | pt. 1. Defiant voice -- pt. 2. Patrician diagnosis -- pt. 3. Challenging liminality. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Altri titoli varianti: | Mania & Literary Style |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Mania and literary style |
| ISBN: | 1-139-08565-4 |
| 0-511-55348-X | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 996248126303316 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. di Salerno |
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Serie:
Cambridge studies in eighteenth-century English literature and thought ; ; 29.