Visits to Bedlam: Madness and Literature in the Eighteenth CenturyUniversity of South Carolina Press, 1974 - 200 Seiten |
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... consider the Augustan denunciation of folly , we should also consider its correspondingly high standard of sanity . The Augustans are fully aware of the difficulty of not being Dunces ; alongside their insistence on the rational , the ...
... consider the Augustan denunciation of folly , we should also consider its correspondingly high standard of sanity . The Augustans are fully aware of the difficulty of not being Dunces ; alongside their insistence on the rational , the ...
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... consider , before he decides , the actual experience of " those who are grown old in the company of themselves . " As an example Imlac describes his friend the astronomer , a man renowned for learning , who has by degrees gone mad after ...
... consider , before he decides , the actual experience of " those who are grown old in the company of themselves . " As an example Imlac describes his friend the astronomer , a man renowned for learning , who has by degrees gone mad after ...
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... consider the patient's diet and his nerves , the circumstances of his life and so forth , we may also consider fearlessly the patient himself ; we may talk with him and , denying him the reality of his delusions and reinterpreting his ...
... consider the patient's diet and his nerves , the circumstances of his life and so forth , we may also consider fearlessly the patient himself ; we may talk with him and , denying him the reality of his delusions and reinterpreting his ...
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CHAPTER TWO The Dunciad and Augustan Madness | 12 |
CHAPTER THREE Swift | 58 |
CHAPTER FOUR Johnson | 88 |
Urheberrecht | |
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