Uneasy Feelings: Literature, the Passions, and Class from Neoclassicism to RomanticismThis work discusses and illustrates the relationship between the Neoclassical and Romantic periods in England, by way of a continuity in the discourse of the passions of these periods. |
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... society somewhere between enthusiasm and bad faith . In this chapter , I will argue that a lingering critical tension between the moral spectator and the ambitious man produces a place for class to appear within discursive ...
... society somewhere between enthusiasm and bad faith . In this chapter , I will argue that a lingering critical tension between the moral spectator and the ambitious man produces a place for class to appear within discursive ...
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... society that is ordered and , as his remarks on revenue imply , civil.15 However , as we have seen both before and after Smith in Dennis , Pope , Wordsworth , and Byron , such claims to civility may be essential " decent drapery " for ...
... society that is ordered and , as his remarks on revenue imply , civil.15 However , as we have seen both before and after Smith in Dennis , Pope , Wordsworth , and Byron , such claims to civility may be essential " decent drapery " for ...
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... society when he represents King Charles I neither as an example of the fixed privilege of birth nor an icon of divine right , but as one of the " rich and powerful " whose success was scorned at a grave cost to society : All the ...
... society when he represents King Charles I neither as an example of the fixed privilege of birth nor an icon of divine right , but as one of the " rich and powerful " whose success was scorned at a grave cost to society : All the ...
Contents
Enthusiastic Passions and Vulgar Readers | 16 |
Chapter 2 | 29 |
Bordering on Enthusiasm and Spots of Crime in William | 44 |
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