Visits to Bedlam: Madness and Literature in the Eighteenth CenturyUniversity of South Carolina Press, 1974 - 200 Seiten |
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... become great in some way , who extend themselves beyond the ordinary , do so , not through their own powers , but by means of supernatural powers . And yet the fear of supernatural powers is at least as old as the reverence for them ...
... become great in some way , who extend themselves beyond the ordinary , do so , not through their own powers , but by means of supernatural powers . And yet the fear of supernatural powers is at least as old as the reverence for them ...
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... become an exile , thrust out of society as Lear has been , one of those ritual exiles like lepers or convicts that societies seem always to need . And Tom o ' Bedlam is a historical phenomenon , a good likeness of actual men who roamed ...
... become an exile , thrust out of society as Lear has been , one of those ritual exiles like lepers or convicts that societies seem always to need . And Tom o ' Bedlam is a historical phenomenon , a good likeness of actual men who roamed ...
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... become jealous of private property soon encounter eager thieves . " 43 And men who fear madness may soon create a world of madmen . " For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me , and that which I was afraid of is come unto me ...
... become jealous of private property soon encounter eager thieves . " 43 And men who fear madness may soon create a world of madmen . " For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me , and that which I was afraid of is come unto me ...
Inhalt
CHAPTER TWO The Dunciad and Augustan Madness | 12 |
CHAPTER THREE Swift | 58 |
CHAPTER FOUR Johnson | 88 |
Urheberrecht | |
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