Mania and Literary Style: The Rhetoric of Enthusiasm from the Ranters to Christopher Smart

ISBN: 9780521022026 出版年：1996 页码：257 Clement Hawes Cambridge University Press

Introduction: mania as rhetoric Part I. Defiant Voice: 1. 'Howl, you great ones': enthusiastic subjectivity as class rhetoric 2. 'A huge loud voice': leveling 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. Beautiful Liminality: 5. Scribe-evangelist: popular writing and enthusiasm in Smart's Jubilate Agno 6. Double jeopardy: the provenance and reception of Jubilate Agno 7. Smart's bawdy politic: misogyny and the second Age of Horn in Jubilate Agno 8. Smart's poetics of place: myth versus utopia in Jubilate Agno Epilogue: beyond pathology.