Mania and Literary Style - The Rhetoric of Enthusiasm From the Ranters to Christopher Smart

Klappentext This study analyzes 'enthusiastic' writing from the Ranters to Swift! and explores madness and sanity in literature. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: mania as rhetoric; Part I. Defiant Voice: 1. 'Howl, you great ones': enthusiastic subjectivity as class rhetoric; 2. 'A huge loud voice': leveling and the gendered body politic; 3. Strange acts and prophetic pranks: apocalypse as process in Abiezer Coppe; Part II. Patrician Diagnosis: 4. Return to madness: mania as plebeian vapors in Swift; Part III. Beautiful Liminality: 5. Scribe-evangelist: popular writing and enthusiasm in Smart's Jubilate Agno; 6. Double jeopardy: the provenance and reception of Jubilate Agno; 7. Smart's bawdy politic: misogyny and the second Age of Horn in Jubilate Agno; 8. Smart's poetics of place: myth versus utopia in Jubilate Agno; Epilogue: beyond pathology.

Product details

• Authors: Clement Hawes, Clement (Southern Illinois University Hawes
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.01.1996
• EAN: 9780521550222
• ISBN: 978-0-521-55022-2
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Eighteent
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies