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Named Person: | James Thomson; Edward Young; James (Schriftsteller Thomson; Edward (Schriftsteller) Young |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Shaun Irlam |
ISBN: | 0804735417 9780804735414 |
OCLC Number: | 231840607 |
Notes: | Zugl.: Johns Hopkins Univ., Diss. |
Description: | VIII, 284 Seiten : Illustrationen |
Contents: | Introduction Part I. Power Speaking: 1. Enthusiasm in the seventeenth century: the vicissitudes of an image 2. 'For the benefit of civil society': impressing the subject 3. In the dungeons of the sublime: Joseph Addison and 'the pleasures of the imagination' Part II. Accesses Of Ecstasy And The Rhetoric Of Self-Alteration: 4. Vatic tremors: unworlding and otherworldliness in James Thomson's 'The Season' 5. Altered states: epiphany and the logic of sacrifice in 'The Seasons' 6. Immortality, or the art of remaining forever young: Edward Young's 'Night-Thoughts' 7. Absence begins at home: crafting the moral subject Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index. |
Responsibility: | Shaun Irlam. |
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"Like Derrida and Paul de Man, what Irlam does is not "scholarship," but textual reading yoked to a priori metaphysical argument. . . . Irlam's readings [of Young's Conjectures on Original Composition], and in his chapters on Thomson, make Elations a book worth inspecting." -- <I>Modern Philology</I> "Irlam brings an imaginative historical perpective to bear on his subjects, contextualizing their achievement through detailed examination of contemporaneous critical and philosophic discourse. . . . The reading of Thomson supported by the preliminary history of enthusiasm is thorough, imaginative, and innovative." -- <I>Studies in Romanticism</I> "Irlam's readings are deft and judicious, and this study makes a large and . . . brilliant contribution to the field." -- <I>Journal of English and Germanic Philology</I> Read more...


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