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pp. 243, “This highly original study of the “manic style” in enthusiastic writing of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries identifies a line of influence running from the radical visionary and prophetic writing of the Ranters and their fellows enthusiasts to the work of Jonathan Swift and Christopher Smart. Its account of the dominant culture’s ridicule of enthusiastic writing (an attitude that persists in twentieth-century literary history and criticism) provides a powerful and daring critique of pervasive assumptions about madness and sanity in literature.”
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| ISBN | 052155022X | |
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| ISBN13 | 9780521550222 | |
| Number of pages | 243 | |
| Original Title | Mania and Literary Style: The Rhetoric of Enthusiasm from the Ranters to Christopher Smart: 29 (Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought, Series Number 29) | |
| Book Condition | Very Good | |
| Jacket Condition | Very Good | |
| Binding | Hardcover | |
| Size | 8vo | |
| Place of Publication | Cambridge | |
| Edition | First edition | |
| Category: | Special Literature | |
| Author: | Clement Hawes | |
| Publisher: | Cambridge |
pp. 243, “This highly original study of the “manic style” in enthusiastic writing of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries identifies a line of influence running from the radical visionary and prophetic writing of the Ranters and their fellows enthusiasts to the work of Jonathan Swift and Christopher Smart. Its account of the dominant culture’s ridicule of enthusiastic writing (an attitude that persists in twentieth-century literary history and criticism) provides a powerful and daring critique of pervasive assumptions about madness and sanity in literature.”
| Weight | 1 kg |
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