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 twentieth-century literary history and criticism) provides a powerful and daring critique of pervasive assumptions about madness and sanity in literature.
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"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
"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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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 fellow enthusiasts to the work of Jonathan Swift and Christopher Smart. Its 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.
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New York, Christopher Smart, Nigel Smith, George Fox, Abiezer Coppe, Clarendon Press, Christopher Hill, Cambridge University Press, Some Sweet Sips, Gerrard Winstanley, Anna Trapnel, Jonathan Swift, Cornell University Press, James Holstun, New Haven, Oxford University Press, Karina Williamson, Yale University Press, Grub Street, Lance Bertelsen, Mother Midnight, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, Samuel Johnson, University of Chicago Press New!
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The most interesting criticism of Christopher Hill's The World Turned Upside Down may be Barry Reay's observation that it never really resolves "the wider issue of rationality." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
manic rhetoric, manic mode, enthusiastic rhetoric, manic style, mad crew, mere clothes, enthusiastic project, female prophets, women prophets, prophetic discourse, plebeian culture Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Christopher Smart, Nigel Smith, George Fox, Abiezer Coppe, Clarendon Press, Christopher Hill, Cambridge University Press, Some Sweet Sips, Gerrard Winstanley, Anna Trapnel, Jonathan Swift, Cornell University Press, James Holstun, New Haven, Oxford University Press, Karina Williamson, Yale University Press, Grub Street, Lance Bertelsen, Mother Midnight, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, Samuel Johnson, University of Chicago Press New!
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- A Tale of a Tub (Everyman's University Paperbacks) by Jonathan Swift on 24 pages
- Smart: Selected Poems (Penguin Classics) by Christopher Smart on 8 pages
- The Politics and Poetics of Transgression by Peter Stallybrass on 5 pages
- A Form of Sound Words: The Religious Poetry of Christopher Smart by Harriet Guest on 4 pages
- Fate of Reading and Other Essays (Midway Reprint Series) by Geoffrey H. Hartman on 4 pages
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- The Politics of Melancholy from Spenser to Milton (Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory) by Adam Kitzes on 4 pages
- The English Radical Imagination: Culture, Religion, and Revolution, 1630-1660 (Oxford English Monographs) by Nicholas McDowell on page 13, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Women And the Pamphlet Culture of Revolutionary England, 1640-1660 (Women and Gender in the Early Modern World) (Women and Gender in the Early Modern World) by Marcus Nevitt on page 133, and Back Matter
- Anger, Revolution, and Romanticism (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism) by Andrew M. Stauffer in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Inventing the "Great Awakening" by Frank Lambert in Back Matter
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