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The Enthusiast - Anatomy of the Fanatic in Seventeenth-Century British Culture (Hardcover)
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The Enthusiast - Anatomy of the Fanatic in Seventeenth-Century British Culture (Hardcover)
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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 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. Taking shape through the
public and private writings of some of the most insightful authors
of seventeenth-century Britain—Henry More, John Locke, the Third
Earl of Shaftesbury, Mary Astell, and Jonathan Swift, among
others—the Enthusiast appeared in various guises and literary
modes. By attending to this literary being and its animators, The
Enthusiast establishes the figure of the fanatic as a bridge
between the Reformation and the Enlightenment, showing how an
incipient secular modernity was informed by not the rejection of
religion but the transformation of the prophet into something
sparkling, witty, ironic, and new.
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