Author: Anonymous
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780948518751
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
A collection of weird happenings during the early seventeenth century - apparitions, monstrous births and other 'Fortea' - reprinted from contemporary pams and handbills.
Anomalous Phenomena of the Interregnum
Author: Anonymous
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780948518751
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
A collection of weird happenings during the early seventeenth century - apparitions, monstrous births and other 'Fortea' - reprinted from contemporary pams and handbills.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780948518751
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
A collection of weird happenings during the early seventeenth century - apparitions, monstrous births and other 'Fortea' - reprinted from contemporary pams and handbills.
Mania and Literary Style
Author: Clement Hawes
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 052155022X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
This highly original study of the 'manic style' in enthusiastic writing of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries identifies a literary tradition and line of influence running from the radical visionary and prophetic writing of the Ranters and their fellow enthusiasts to the work of Jonathan Swift and Christopher Smart. Clement Hawes offers a counterweight to recent work which has addressed the subject of literature and madness from the viewpoint of contemporary psychological medicine, putting forward instead a stylistic and rhetorical analysis. He argues that the writings of dissident 'enthusiastic' groups are based in social antagonisms; and his account of the dominant culture's ridicule of enthusiastic writing (an attitude which persists in twentieth-century literary history and criticism) provides a powerful and daring critique of pervasive assumptions about madness and sanity in literature.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 052155022X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
This highly original study of the 'manic style' in enthusiastic writing of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries identifies a literary tradition and line of influence running from the radical visionary and prophetic writing of the Ranters and their fellow enthusiasts to the work of Jonathan Swift and Christopher Smart. Clement Hawes offers a counterweight to recent work which has addressed the subject of literature and madness from the viewpoint of contemporary psychological medicine, putting forward instead a stylistic and rhetorical analysis. He argues that the writings of dissident 'enthusiastic' groups are based in social antagonisms; and his account of the dominant culture's ridicule of enthusiastic writing (an attitude which persists in twentieth-century literary history and criticism) provides a powerful and daring critique of pervasive assumptions about madness and sanity in literature.
The Waterless Sea
Author: Christopher Pinney
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1780239696
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Mirages have long astonished travelers of the sea and beguiled thirsty desert voyagers. Traditional Chinese and Japanese poetry and art depict the above-horizon, superior mirage, or fata morgana, as exhalations of clam-monsters. Indian sources relate mirages to the “thirst of gazelles,” a metaphor for the futility of desire. Starting in the late eighteenth century, mirages became a symbol in the West of Oriental despotism—a negative, but also enchanted, emblem. But the mirage motif is rarely simply condemnatory. More often, our obsession with mirages conveys a sense of escape, of fascination, of a desire to be deceived. The Waterless Sea is the first book devoted to the theories and history of mirages. Christopher Pinney navigates a sinuous pathway through a mysterious and evanescent terrain, showing how mirages have impacted politics, culture, science, and religion—and how we can continue to learn from their sublimity.
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1780239696
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Mirages have long astonished travelers of the sea and beguiled thirsty desert voyagers. Traditional Chinese and Japanese poetry and art depict the above-horizon, superior mirage, or fata morgana, as exhalations of clam-monsters. Indian sources relate mirages to the “thirst of gazelles,” a metaphor for the futility of desire. Starting in the late eighteenth century, mirages became a symbol in the West of Oriental despotism—a negative, but also enchanted, emblem. But the mirage motif is rarely simply condemnatory. More often, our obsession with mirages conveys a sense of escape, of fascination, of a desire to be deceived. The Waterless Sea is the first book devoted to the theories and history of mirages. Christopher Pinney navigates a sinuous pathway through a mysterious and evanescent terrain, showing how mirages have impacted politics, culture, science, and religion—and how we can continue to learn from their sublimity.
Blithe Spirits
Author: S. D. Tucker
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445667290
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 628
Book Description
Covering and analyzing a wide global selection of reported poltergeist phenomena through history, literature and society.
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445667290
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 628
Book Description
Covering and analyzing a wide global selection of reported poltergeist phenomena through history, literature and society.
Early Modern Hermaphrodites
Author: R. Gilbert
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230510221
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
From the sixteenth century to the eighteenth century, hermaphrodites were discussed and depicted in a range of artistic, mythological, scientific and erotic contexts. Early Modern Hermaphrodites looks at some of those representations to explore the stories they tell about ambiguous sex and gender in early modern England. Gilbert examines the often contradictory ways in which hermaphrodites were represented as both spiritual ideals and sexual grotesques; as freaks, erotic objects and medical curiosities' and as literary metaphors and signs of social decay.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230510221
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
From the sixteenth century to the eighteenth century, hermaphrodites were discussed and depicted in a range of artistic, mythological, scientific and erotic contexts. Early Modern Hermaphrodites looks at some of those representations to explore the stories they tell about ambiguous sex and gender in early modern England. Gilbert examines the often contradictory ways in which hermaphrodites were represented as both spiritual ideals and sexual grotesques; as freaks, erotic objects and medical curiosities' and as literary metaphors and signs of social decay.
Bunyan Studies
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Selected Writings
Author: Gerrard Winstanley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Tyranipocrit Discovered
Author: Andrew Hopton
Publisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Monsters Both by Land and Sea
Author: Noah Yasskin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
The interregnum, 1923-1924
Author: Edward Hallett Carr
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Soviet Union
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Soviet Union
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description