Mania and literary style : the rhetoric of enthusiasm from the Ranters to Christopher Smart

Mania and literary style : the rhetoric of enthusiasm from the Ranters to Christopher Smart / Clement Hawes.

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 Jona...

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Main Author: Hawes, Clement
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1996.
Series:Cambridge studies in eighteenth-century English literature and thought ; 29.
Subjects:
Smart, Christopher, > 1722-1771. > Jubilate agno.
Smart, Christopher > 1722-1771 > Jubilate agno
Englisch, ...
Jubilate agno (Smart, Christopher)
1700-1799
English literature > 18th century > History and criticism.
Enthusiasm in literature.
Literature and mental illness > England > History > 18th century.
Literature and society > England > History > 18th century.
Rhetoric > England > History > 18th century.
English language > 18th century > Style.
Levellers.
Ranters.
English language > Style
English literature
Enthusiasm in literature
Levellers
Literature and mental illness
Literature and society
Ranters
Rhetoric
Wahnsinn > Motiv
Literatur
England
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
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