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Elations: The Poetics of Enthusiasm in Eighteenth-Century Britain
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Literary TheoryLiterary HistoryHumanitiesArt CriticismLiterary CriticismCivil SocietyIntroduction PartLiterary StudyArtsImaginative WritingPoeticsLanguage StudiesBritish LiteratureEighteenth-century BritainJames ThomsonIntellectual History
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.