Visits to Bedlam: Madness and Literature in the Eighteenth CenturyUniversity of South Carolina Press, 1974 - 200 Seiten |
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... once clapped in a " Strait - Wastecoat " and held prisoner in isolation . While a captive he was treated with demeaning and dangerous barbarity and at first kept incommunicado . His patrons paid a guinea a week for his confinement ...
... once clapped in a " Strait - Wastecoat " and held prisoner in isolation . While a captive he was treated with demeaning and dangerous barbarity and at first kept incommunicado . His patrons paid a guinea a week for his confinement ...
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... once again he does more than simply mock the enthusiast's notorious weakness for lady saints ( " She was of that blend of licentiousness and enthusiasm we see so often , " Boswell says of a complete stranger ) . Like the excremental ...
... once again he does more than simply mock the enthusiast's notorious weakness for lady saints ( " She was of that blend of licentiousness and enthusiasm we see so often , " Boswell says of a complete stranger ) . Like the excremental ...
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... once in his poetry , in fact , Cowper uses the word " overwhelmed " to describe his madness , here and powerfully at the conclusion of " The Castaway " : We perish'd , each alone : But I beneath a rougher sea , And whelm'd in deeper ...
... once in his poetry , in fact , Cowper uses the word " overwhelmed " to describe his madness , here and powerfully at the conclusion of " The Castaway " : We perish'd , each alone : But I beneath a rougher sea , And whelm'd in deeper ...
Inhalt
CHAPTER TWO The Dunciad and Augustan Madness | 12 |
CHAPTER THREE Swift | 58 |
CHAPTER FOUR Johnson | 88 |
Urheberrecht | |
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Alexander Cruden animals attack Augustan Age become Bedlam beginning Bertrand Bronson Blake Blake's blindness Book Boswell Burke calls chains chapter Cheyne Cowper danger darkness Defoe describe disease disorder distemper divine dreams Dulness Dunces Dunciad earlier early eighteenth century eighteenth century England English Malady enthusiast Essay example excrement fear feel folly Fool forces Foucault genius Gothic novels Gulliver's Gulliver's Travels Houyhnhnms Ibid ideas imagination Imlac insanity inspiration intellectual irrationality Johnson Jonathan Swift kind King Lear Lear's madness light literary literature Locke lunatic madhouses madman Madness and Civilization means melancholy metaphor mid-century moral nature Ned Ward never passion poem poet Poetical poetry Pope and Swift Pope's poverty private madhouses Rambler Rasselas reality reason religious remarks Renaissance Richardson Romantic Samuel Johnson Sancroft sane sanity satire satirist says scene seems sense speaks spirit Spleen Sublime Tale things thought truth Vapours victims vision William writes