Elations : the poetics of enthusiasm in eighteenth-century Britain / Shaun Irlam.

Contents Enthusiasm in the seventeenth century: the vicissitudes of an image -- "For the benefit of civil society": impressing the subject -- In the dungeons of the sublime: Joseph Addison and "The pleasures of the imagination" -- Vatic tremors: unworlding and otherworldliness in James Thomson's 'The seasons' -- Altered states: epiphany and the logic of sacrifice in 'The seasons' -- Immortality, or the art of remaining forever young: Edward Young's 'Night-thoughts' -- Absence begins at home: crafting the moral subject.
General noteOriginally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral--Johns Hopkins University).
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 265-277) and index.
LCCN 99022587
ISBN0804735417 (alk. paper)

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