Elations
Subtitle: the poetics of enthusiasm in eighteenth-century Britain
By: Shaun Irlam.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
Subjects: Young, Edward, 1683-1765; Thomson, James, 1700-1748; English poetry -- 18th century -- History and criticism; Enthusiasm in literature; Didactic poetry, English -- History and criticism; Sublime, The -- History -- 18th century; Aesthetics, British -- 18th century; Poetics -- History -- 18th century; Sentimentalism in literature; Sublime, The, in literature
Description: "Elations rewrites the history of early-eighteenth-century English literature around the politics and poetics of "Enthusiasm." It examines the aesthetic theory of the period and reassesses the poetry of two poets seldom read today but very popular in their time. James Thomson and Edward Young.

The book also explores the genesis and construction of moral authority through a variety of competing discourses appropriated by poetry, and it traces the rehabilitation of languages of sentiment and Enthusiasm between the English Civil War and the American Revolution."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-277) and index.
Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral--Johns Hopkins University).