Mania and Literary Style: The Rhetoric of Enthusiasm from the Ranters to Christopher Smart by Clement Hawes

Mania and Literary Style: The Rhetoric of Enthusiasm from the Ranters to Christopher Smart

Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought

Clement Hawes

256 pages • first pub 1996 (editions)

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This highly original study of the "manic style" in enthusiastic writing of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries identifies a line of influence running from the radical visionary and prophetic writing of the Ranters and their fellows enthusiast...

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