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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 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wilputte, Earla Arden, 1959- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Haywood, Eliza Fowler, > 1693?-1756 > Language.
Hill, Aaron, > 1685-1750 > Language.
Sansom, Martha Fowke, > 1689-1736 > Language.
English literature > 18th century > History and criticism.
Emotions in literature.
Table of 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.