Visits to Bedlam: Madness and Literature in the Eighteenth CenturyUniversity of South Carolina Press, 1974 - 200 Seiten |
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... poor man - a Christian tenderness for the world's beggars , paupers , victims - and a satiric contempt for the hypocrisy of riches and pomp . By then poor himself , Lear responded to poverty by accommodating it within his tragic vision ...
... poor man - a Christian tenderness for the world's beggars , paupers , victims - and a satiric contempt for the hypocrisy of riches and pomp . By then poor himself , Lear responded to poverty by accommodating it within his tragic vision ...
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... poor unfortunate wretch , chained down in bed . Whilst I was going round , one of the madmen , having disengaged himself from his chains , lept stark naked upon the back of the person that accompanied me , who was the keeper of the ward ...
... poor unfortunate wretch , chained down in bed . Whilst I was going round , one of the madmen , having disengaged himself from his chains , lept stark naked upon the back of the person that accompanied me , who was the keeper of the ward ...
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... poor benighted figure and like the sterile angels of The Marriage of Heaven and Hell , Blake says , the world enslaved to another man's system harbors true madness ; and the madness of that world is fruitless , uncreative , uninspired ...
... poor benighted figure and like the sterile angels of The Marriage of Heaven and Hell , Blake says , the world enslaved to another man's system harbors true madness ; and the madness of that world is fruitless , uncreative , uninspired ...
Inhalt
CHAPTER TWO The Dunciad and Augustan Madness | 12 |
CHAPTER THREE Swift | 58 |
CHAPTER FOUR Johnson | 88 |
Urheberrecht | |
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