Visits to Bedlam: Madness and Literature in the Eighteenth CenturyUniversity of South Carolina Press, 1974 - 200 Seiten |
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... cause of this enthusiasm is a bad temperament of the blood and spirits ; ' tis properly a disease , a sort of madness . . . . In nothing does the enthusiasm of these persons discover itself more , than in the disregard they express to ...
... cause of this enthusiasm is a bad temperament of the blood and spirits ; ' tis properly a disease , a sort of madness . . . . In nothing does the enthusiasm of these persons discover itself more , than in the disregard they express to ...
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... cause a deep - seated , barely controlled terror . Fear of the insane , of course , is common to many cultures . In earlier times men recoiled from the gods or witches who inflicted madness : their presence , even if it denoted ...
... cause a deep - seated , barely controlled terror . Fear of the insane , of course , is common to many cultures . In earlier times men recoiled from the gods or witches who inflicted madness : their presence , even if it denoted ...
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... cause of lunacy in young ladies . As an article of faith the equation of madness and civilization ( and to a lesser degree the equation of madness and liberty ) has proved wonderfully tenacious and self - serving . An American writer ...
... cause of lunacy in young ladies . As an article of faith the equation of madness and civilization ( and to a lesser degree the equation of madness and liberty ) has proved wonderfully tenacious and self - serving . An American writer ...
Inhalt
CHAPTER TWO The Dunciad and Augustan Madness | 12 |
CHAPTER THREE Swift | 58 |
CHAPTER FOUR Johnson | 88 |
Urheberrecht | |
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