{"product_id":"elations-9780804735414","title":"Elations","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eElations\u003c\/i\u003e rewrites the history of early-18th-century English literature around the politics and poetics of \"Enthusiasm.\" It examines the aesthetic theory of the period, traces the evolution and differentiation of a \u003ci\u003epoetic\u003c\/i\u003e enthusiasm from religious enthusiasm, and reassesses the poetry of two poets very popular in their time: James Thomson and Edward Young.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Like Derrida and Paul de Man, what Irlam does is not \"scholarship,\" but textual reading yoked to a priori metaphysical argument. . . . Irlam's readings [of Young's \u003ci\u003eConjectures on Original Composition\u003c\/i\u003e], and in his chapters on Thomson, make \u003ci\u003eElations\u003c\/i\u003e a book worth inspecting.\" -- \u003ci\u003eModern Philology\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Irlam brings an imaginative historical perpective to bear on his subjects, contextualizing their achievement through detailed examination of contemporaneous critical and philosophic discourse. . . . The reading of Thomson supported by the preliminary history of enthusiasm is thorough, imaginative, and innovative.\" -- \u003ci\u003eStudies in Romanticism\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Irlam's readings are deft and judicious, and this study makes a large and . . . brilliant contribution to the field.\" -- \u003ci\u003eJournal of English and Germanic Philology\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction  Part I. Power Speaking: 1. Enthusiasm in the seventeenth century: the vicissitudes of an image  2. 'For the benefit of civil society': impressing the subject  3. In the dungeons of the sublime: Joseph Addison and 'the pleasures of the imagination'  Part II. Accesses Of Ecstasy And The Rhetoric Of Self-Alteration: 4. Vatic tremors: unworlding and otherworldliness in James Thomson's 'The Season'  5. Altered states: epiphany and the logic of sacrifice in 'The Seasons'  6. Immortality, or the art of remaining forever young: Edward Young's 'Night-Thoughts'  7. Absence begins at home: crafting the moral subject  Epilogue  Notes  Bibliography  Index.","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48884659388759,"sku":"9780804735414","price":59.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780804735414.jpg?v=1722532902","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/elations-9780804735414","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}