Elations : the poetics of enthusiasm in eighteenth-century Britain
Elations rewrites the history of early-18th-century English literature around the politics and poetics of "Enthusiasm." It examines the aesthetic theory of the period, traces the evolution and differentiation of a poetic enthusiasm from religious enthusiasm, and reassesses the poetry of two poets very popular in their time: James Thomson and Edward Young.
Print Book, English, 1999
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Stanford Univ. Press, Stanford, Calif., 1999
VIII, 284 Seiten : Illustrationen
9780804735414, 0804735417
231840607
Introduction Part I. Power Speaking: 1. Enthusiasm in the seventeenth century: the vicissitudes of an image 2. 'For the benefit of civil society': impressing the subject 3. In the dungeons of the sublime: Joseph Addison and 'the pleasures of the imagination' Part II. Accesses Of Ecstasy And The Rhetoric Of Self-Alteration: 4. Vatic tremors: unworlding and otherworldliness in James Thomson's 'The Season' 5. Altered states: epiphany and the logic of sacrifice in 'The Seasons' 6. Immortality, or the art of remaining forever young: Edward Young's 'Night-Thoughts' 7. Absence begins at home: crafting the moral subject Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index.
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