Mania and Literary Style
Subtitle: The Rhetoric of Enthusiasm from the Ranters to Christopher Smart (Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 3, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9780521022026
Subjects: Literary studies: 16th to 18th centuries; Semiotics & Theory; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; British Isles; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism & Collections / Theory; Literary Criticism-English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
First sentence: The most interesting criticism of Christopher Hill's The World Turned Upside Down may be Barry Reay's observation that it never really resolves "the wider issue of rationality."