Visits to Bedlam: Madness and Literature in the Eighteenth CenturyUniversity of South Carolina Press, 1974 - 200 Seiten |
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... religions ( and most philosophies ) are also responses to the instinctive fear that disorder may be the nature of the world ... Religious doctrine sometimes clouds the matter - in effect pitting the optimistic against the pessimistic ...
... religions ( and most philosophies ) are also responses to the instinctive fear that disorder may be the nature of the world ... Religious doctrine sometimes clouds the matter - in effect pitting the optimistic against the pessimistic ...
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... religious enthusiast , which Pope along with most of his generation uses as a synonym for madman . In temperament , if not in doctrine , Pope stands with those who in New England were called " Old Lights " -stubborn , sober opponents of ...
... religious enthusiast , which Pope along with most of his generation uses as a synonym for madman . In temperament , if not in doctrine , Pope stands with those who in New England were called " Old Lights " -stubborn , sober opponents of ...
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... religion . ( See , for example , his censure of emotional sermons in A Letter to a Young Gentleman , Lately Entered into Holy Orders . ) Dunces or religious fanatics represent appropriate personal manifestations of an enemy already ...
... religion . ( See , for example , his censure of emotional sermons in A Letter to a Young Gentleman , Lately Entered into Holy Orders . ) Dunces or religious fanatics represent appropriate personal manifestations of an enemy already ...
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