Visits to Bedlam: Madness and Literature in the Eighteenth CenturyUniversity of South Carolina Press, 1974 - 200 Seiten |
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... response of men to the sight of inspiration is ambiguous , a curse or a blessing ; and the name commonly given it is madness . The chapters that follow examine this universal ambiguity of response to madness in the historical setting of ...
... response of men to the sight of inspiration is ambiguous , a curse or a blessing ; and the name commonly given it is madness . The chapters that follow examine this universal ambiguity of response to madness in the historical setting of ...
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... response to madness , to distinguish it from what we have been calling the traditional view , and to suggest how the Augustan response , which was a denial , evolved into the Ro- mantic response , which was an embracing . I draw largely ...
... response to madness , to distinguish it from what we have been calling the traditional view , and to suggest how the Augustan response , which was a denial , evolved into the Ro- mantic response , which was an embracing . I draw largely ...
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... response to Tom . By the time Kent finds them all in the storm , Lear has begun to take Tom not as a representative ... response to Tom's madness is also a response to his own . The themes of madness and wisdom , madness and blindness ...
... response to Tom . By the time Kent finds them all in the storm , Lear has begun to take Tom not as a representative ... response to Tom's madness is also a response to his own . The themes of madness and wisdom , madness and blindness ...
Inhalt
CHAPTER TWO The Dunciad and Augustan Madness | 12 |
CHAPTER THREE Swift | 58 |
CHAPTER FOUR Johnson | 88 |
Urheberrecht | |
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