Visits to Bedlam: Madness and Literature in the Eighteenth CenturyUniversity of South Carolina Press, 1974 - 200 Seiten |
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... King Lear , in the country near Dover , Edgar cries out in sudden anguish at the old king's raving , Ol matter and impertinency mix'd ; Reason in madness . ' Edgar is responding to Lear's shrewd declamations on social injustice , but ...
... King Lear , in the country near Dover , Edgar cries out in sudden anguish at the old king's raving , Ol matter and impertinency mix'd ; Reason in madness . ' Edgar is responding to Lear's shrewd declamations on social injustice , but ...
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... Lear , then , is as a stimulus to Lear's grow- ing sense of relation , his perception of kinship with the wider world . The king's madness drives him to such company , and from the humiliation of it , after a long time , will come his ...
... Lear , then , is as a stimulus to Lear's grow- ing sense of relation , his perception of kinship with the wider world . The king's madness drives him to such company , and from the humiliation of it , after a long time , will come his ...
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... King Lear , goes far toward creating The Dunciad's negative vision of madness . The Dunces are no visionary satirists like Lear on the heath or like Stultitia in Erasmus's Praise of Folly ; they belong instead to the grim Juvenalian ...
... King Lear , goes far toward creating The Dunciad's negative vision of madness . The Dunces are no visionary satirists like Lear on the heath or like Stultitia in Erasmus's Praise of Folly ; they belong instead to the grim Juvenalian ...
Inhalt
CHAPTER TWO The Dunciad and Augustan Madness | 12 |
CHAPTER THREE Swift | 58 |
CHAPTER FOUR Johnson | 88 |
Urheberrecht | |
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