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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      16 September 2009
      26 January 1996
      ISBN:
      9780511553486
      9780521550222
      9780521022026
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511553486
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.495kg, 256 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.403kg, 256 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, Social Psychology, British History after 1450, English Literature 1700-1830, Psychology
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought (29)
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    Subjects:
    Literature, Social Psychology, British History after 1450, English Literature 1700-1830, Psychology
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought (29)
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    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 Jonathan Swift and Christopher Smart. Clement Hawes offers a counterweight to recent work which has addressed the subject of literature and madness from the viewpoint of contemporary psychological medicine, putting forward instead a stylistic and rhetorical analysis. He argues that the writings of dissident 'enthusiastic' groups are based in social antagonisms; and his account of the dominant culture's ridicule of enthusiastic writing (an attitude which persists in twentieth-century literary history and criticism) provides a powerful and daring critique of pervasive assumptions about madness and sanity in literature.

    Reviews

    "The approach is lively and engaging, context-rich and historically immersed, imaginative and responsive to the realities of the discourse community." Choice

    "Hawes' sensitive reading of enthusiastic language and his obvious pleasure in its iconoclastic mania to loosen and unsettle, to fragment and recombine, deepens our understanding of early modern literary culture." Anne L. Cotterill, Albion

    "...Mania and Literary Style buzzes with interest...This book should be read..." Nigel Smith, Modern Philology

    "Clement Hawes's outstanding new book on the history of literary enthusiasm has arrived. Mania and Literary Style is a provocative and exciting account." Studies in Romanticism

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