Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought Ser.: Mania and Literary Style : The Rhetoric of Enthusiasm from the Ranters to Christopher Smart by Clement Hawes (2005, Trade Paperback)

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Product Description : Mania and Literary Style: The Rhetoric of Enthusiasm from the Ranters to Christopher Smart (Cambridge Studies in EighteenthCent," This highly original study of the "manic style" in enthusiastic writing of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries identifies a line of influence running from the radical visionary and prophetic writing of the Ranters and their fellows enthusiasts to the work of Jonathan Swift and Christopher Smart. Its account of the dominant culture's ridicule of enthusiastic writing (an attitude that persists in twentiethcentury literary history and criticism) provides a powerful and daring critique of pervasive assumptions about madness and sanity in literature.