Visits to Bedlam: Madness and Literature in the Eighteenth CenturyUniversity of South Carolina Press, 1974 - 200 Seiten |
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... madman into the Renaissance , when with many complications the traditional balance was restored . And yet even in ... madman - indeed , it assaulted the person of the madman himself . It is from the beginning of this period that we date ...
... madman into the Renaissance , when with many complications the traditional balance was restored . And yet even in ... madman - indeed , it assaulted the person of the madman himself . It is from the beginning of this period that we date ...
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... madman of the Augustan Age was brutalized in fact : regarded as an animal , he was treated exactly like one . The madman's supposed powers to endure the coldest weather without clothing or shelter were proof of his inhumanity ; and some ...
... madman of the Augustan Age was brutalized in fact : regarded as an animal , he was treated exactly like one . The madman's supposed powers to endure the coldest weather without clothing or shelter were proof of his inhumanity ; and some ...
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... madman so often that he sometimes ironically took up the role . As these dialogues with Cowper suggest , there are two special meanings that Blake brought to madness : the belief that the inspired man is always called mad in this world ...
... madman so often that he sometimes ironically took up the role . As these dialogues with Cowper suggest , there are two special meanings that Blake brought to madness : the belief that the inspired man is always called mad in this world ...
Inhalt
CHAPTER TWO The Dunciad and Augustan Madness | 12 |
CHAPTER THREE Swift | 58 |
CHAPTER FOUR Johnson | 88 |
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