Visits to Bedlam: Madness and Literature in the Eighteenth CenturyUniversity of South Carolina Press, 1974 - 200 Seiten |
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... Johnson's distrust of the imagination is traditional as well as personal . Arieh Sachs points out that for centuries Western men have thought of the primary meaning of imagination as evil , literally diabolical . To the medieval mind ...
... Johnson's distrust of the imagination is traditional as well as personal . Arieh Sachs points out that for centuries Western men have thought of the primary meaning of imagination as evil , literally diabolical . To the medieval mind ...
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... Johnson fears only imagination , or as Professor Balderston puts it , " culpable fantasy . " Swift waits anxiously for an explosion , a subterranean eruption ; Johnson sees skirmishes at every moment , rarely bunching into one great ...
... Johnson fears only imagination , or as Professor Balderston puts it , " culpable fantasy . " Swift waits anxiously for an explosion , a subterranean eruption ; Johnson sees skirmishes at every moment , rarely bunching into one great ...
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... Johnson's contemporaries - that obsession is the basic shape of madness , partly , as Balderston has said , upon Johnson's own personal experience . When imagination overpowers reason , the result is usually what the age calls the ...
... Johnson's contemporaries - that obsession is the basic shape of madness , partly , as Balderston has said , upon Johnson's own personal experience . When imagination overpowers reason , the result is usually what the age calls the ...
Inhalt
CHAPTER TWO The Dunciad and Augustan Madness | 12 |
CHAPTER THREE Swift | 58 |
CHAPTER FOUR Johnson | 88 |
Urheberrecht | |
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