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Mania and Literary Style: The Rhetoric of Enthusiasm from the Ranters to Christopher Smart - Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought
Hawes, Clement (Southern Illinois University, Carbondale)
Mania and Literary Style: The Rhetoric of Enthusiasm from the Ranters to Christopher Smart - Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought
Hawes, Clement (Southern Illinois University, Carbondale)
This highly original study identifies a 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, and offers a powerful critique of pervasive assumptions about madness and sanity in literature.
256 pages, black & white illustrations
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | January 26, 1996 |
ISBN13 | 9780521550222 |
Publishers | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 256 |
Dimensions | 152 × 229 × 19 mm · 495 g |
Series Editor | Erskine-hill, Howard |
Series Editor | Richetti, John |