Passion and Language in Eighteenth-Century Literature
earliest edition we have, 2014 Palgrave Macmillan, 2014 hardcover 240 pages
Eighteenth-century writers struggled to find a language to accommodate new and emerging understandings of the role of the emotions in an increasingly secular world. The 'aesthetic sublime' offered a figurative language through which to explore authors' inner lives, sociable interconnections, and psychosexual entanglements. This study traces the development of the passionate language of Haywood, Hill, and Fowke whose...
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