Mania and literary style : the rhetoric of enthusiasm from the Ranters to Christopher Smart / Clement Hawes.

Nightmares and hobbyhorses : Swift, Sterne, and Augustan ideas of madness / by Michael V. DePorte.

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Mania and literary style : the rhetoric of enthusiasm from the Ranters to Christopher Smart / Clement Hawes.

Nightmares and hobbyhorses : Swift, Sterne, and Augustan ideas of madness / by Michael V. DePorte.