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

Hawes, Clement.

Year: 1996.

Publisher: Cambridge University Press.

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Frontmatter

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Mania as rhetoric

PART I: DEFIANT VOICE

1 "Howle, you great ones": enthusiastic subjectivity as class rhetoric

2 "A huge loud voice": levelling 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: CHALLENGING LIMINALITY

5 Scribe-evangelist: popular writing and enthusiasm in Smart's Jubilate Agno

6 Double jeopardy: the provenance and reception of Jubliate Agno

7 Smart's bawdy politic: misogyny and the second Age of Horn in Jubliate Agno

8 Smart's poetics of place: myth versus utopia in Jubliate Agno

Epilogue: Beyond pathology

Index

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Title:

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

Author:

Hawes, Clement

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Mania and literary style : the rhetoric of enthusiasm from the Ranters to Christopher Smart / Clement Hawes.
Hawes, Clement
Cambridge, [U.K.]: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

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http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.07596

Subject Headings:

• Smart, Christopher, -- 1722-1771. -- Jubilate agno
• 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

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