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Passion and language in eighteenth-century literature : the aesthetic sublime in the work of Eliza Haywood, Aaron Hill, and Martha Fowke / Earla Wilputte.
Van Pelt Library PR448.E46 W66 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wilputte, Earla Arden, 1959- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Haywood, Eliza Fowler, 1693?-1756--Language.
- Haywood, Eliza Fowler.
- Hill, Aaron, 1685-1750--Language.
- Hill, Aaron.
- Sansom, Martha Fowke, 1689-1736--Language.
- Sansom, Martha Fowke.
- Sansom, Martha Fowke, 1689-1736.
- Hill, Aaron, 1685-1750.
- Haywood, Eliza Fowler, 1693?-1756.
- English literature--18th century--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Emotions in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 240 pages ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- Passion and language in 18th-century literature
- Place of Publication:
- New York, N.Y. : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
- Summary:
- Eighteenth-century writes such as Eliza Haywood, Aaron Hill, and Martha Fowke 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 entanglement. Through imaginatively contextualized close readings, this study focuses on Haywood, Hill, and Fowke and their personal and professional relationships with each other within Hill's literary circle. By studying, these writers, Wilputte provides an intriguing and problematic context in which to studying these winters, Wilputte provides an intriguing and problematic context in which to study the language of passion in the first half of the eighteenth century. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- The need for a language for the passions
- Life's progress through the passions
- "Give me a speaking and a writing love": passionate letters
- The Miscellany's picture poems and Haywood's poems on several occasions
- The plain dealer's progress from the garrison to the midwife
- The dangers of giving way to language
- Conclusion: Hill's, Fowke's, and Haywood's progress through the passions.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-229) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781137442048
- 1137442042
- OCLC:
- 893039377
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