The Enthusiast : : Anatomy of the Fanatic in Seventeenth-Century British Culture / / William Cook Miller.
The Enthusiast 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. As William Cook Miller shows, the caricature of fanaticism,...
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Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2023] ©2023 |
Year of Publication: | 2023 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (264 p.) :; 3 b&w halftones, 1 graph |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Prophets , True and False
- 1. The Mere Enthusiast
- 2. Henry More’s Compound Enthusiast
- 3. The Double Life of the Compound Enthusiast
- 4. John Locke’s Enthusiasts
- 5. The Celebration and Condemnation of the Universal Enthusiast
- 6. Jonathan Swift’s Enthusiastic Personae
- Conclusion: Prophecy and the Big Allegory
- Index