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Inspiration in the Age of Enlightenment - 9781611494990

Un libro in lingua di Sarah Eron edito da Univ of Delaware Pr, 2014

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Inspiration in the Age of Enlightenment reconsiders theories of apostrophe and poetic authority to argue that the Augustan age created a new form of inspiration, one that not only changed the relationship of literary production to authority in the modern period but that also crucially contributes to defining the movement of secularization in literature from the Renaissance to Romanticism. By examining the formal mechanisms of invocation in Augustan literature, and by exploring a wider range of writers that extends beyond Swift and his vehement critique of enthusiasm, Eron charts a positive reform of enthusiasm as a species of the secular, which conforms to, instead of resisting, Enlightenment principles of the aesthetic; these call for a type of affect that promotes free reason and envisions the author’s use of language as a process of discovery. This book makes a much-needed argument for the presence of a type of invocation in the Augustan age that aligns with early Enlightenment principles of the aesthetic and reveals definitions of genius and inspiration as formal agents of didacticism.

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