Visits to Bedlam: Madness and Literature in the Eighteenth CenturyUniversity of South Carolina Press, 1974 - 200 Seiten |
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... fear . The intensity of the Augustan revulsion was too great not to suggest to us as its cause a deep - seated , barely controlled terror . Fear of the insane , of course , is common to many cultures . In earlier times men recoiled from ...
... fear . The intensity of the Augustan revulsion was too great not to suggest to us as its cause a deep - seated , barely controlled terror . Fear of the insane , of course , is common to many cultures . In earlier times men recoiled from ...
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... fear . The Rambler papers , as we shall see , document the bizarre , ingenious ways in which we set ourselves to hope for some blessing or gain or to fear some disaster , and then as Imlac says , " By degrees the reign of fancy is ...
... fear . The Rambler papers , as we shall see , document the bizarre , ingenious ways in which we set ourselves to hope for some blessing or gain or to fear some disaster , and then as Imlac says , " By degrees the reign of fancy is ...
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... fear - recurs again and again in what he said and wrote . " Johnson's fear of death , " W. J. Bate observes , " is closely paralleled by his even greater horror of insanity as the ' heaviest of human afflictions . ' Each explains and ...
... fear - recurs again and again in what he said and wrote . " Johnson's fear of death , " W. J. Bate observes , " is closely paralleled by his even greater horror of insanity as the ' heaviest of human afflictions . ' Each explains and ...
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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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