{"product_id":"mania-and-literary-style-the-rhetoric-of-enthusiasm-from-the-ranters-to-christopher-smart-hardback-9780521550222","title":"Mania and Literary Style; The Rhetoric of Enthusiasm from the Ranters to Christopher Smart (Hardback) 9780521550222","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eMania and Literary Style\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Rhetoric of Enthusiasm from the Ranters to Christopher Smart\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis study analyzes 'enthusiastic' writing from the Ranters to Swift, and explores madness and sanity in literature.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eClement Hawes (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521550222, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 26 January 1996\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e256 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm, 0.495 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"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\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction: mania as rhetoric\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Defiant Voice: 1. 'Howl, you great ones': enthusiastic subjectivity as class rhetoric\u003cbr\u003e 2. 'A huge loud voice': leveling and the gendered body politic\u003cbr\u003e 3. Strange acts and prophetic pranks: apocalypse as process in Abiezer Coppe\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Patrician Diagnosis: 4. Return to madness: mania as plebeian vapors in Swift\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Beautiful Liminality: 5. Scribe-evangelist: popular writing and enthusiasm in Smart's Jubilate Agno\u003cbr\u003e 6. Double jeopardy: the provenance and reception of Jubilate Agno\u003cbr\u003e 7. Smart's bawdy politic: misogyny and the second Age of Horn in Jubilate Agno\u003cbr\u003e 8. Smart's poetics of place: myth versus utopia in Jubilate Agno\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: beyond pathology.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary studies: poetry \u0026amp; poets [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: poetry \u0026amp; poets\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20poetry%20\u0026amp;%20poets%20%5BDSC%5D%22\"\u003eDSC\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46065973395736,"sku":"9780521550222","price":67.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521550222i.jpg?v=1691408463","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/mania-and-literary-style-the-rhetoric-of-enthusiasm-from-the-ranters-to-christopher-smart-hardback-9780521550222","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}