{"product_id":"the-enthusiast-9781501770807","title":"The Enthusiast","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Enthusiast\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e tells the story of a character type that was developed in early modern Britain to discredit radical prophets during an era that witnessed the dismantling of the Church of England''s traditional means for punishing heresy.\u003c\/b\u003e As William Cook Miller shows, the caricature of fanaticism here called the Enthusiast began as propaganda against religious dissenters, especially working-class upstarts, but was adopted by a range of writers as a literary vehicle for exploring profound problems of spirit, soul, and body and as a persona for the ironic expression of their own prophetic illuminations. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTaking shape through the public and private writings of some of the most insightful authors of seventeenth-century BritainHenry More, John Locke, the Third Earl of Shaftesbury, Mary Astell, and Jonathan Swift, among othersthe Enthusiast appeared in various guises and literary modes. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy attending to this literary being and its animators,\u003ci\u003e The Enthusias\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409372914007,"sku":"9781501770807","price":38.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781501770807.jpg?v=1730506578","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-enthusiast-9781501770807","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}