Nightmares and hobbyhorses. Swift, Sterne, and Augustan ideas of madness

Curing Madness: The Departure from and Return to Common Life in Swift, Hume, and Lennox

The Will to Madness: Pride and the Meaning of Gulliver's Madness

With Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift descends upon Humanity like a surgeon upon a cadaver, ruthlessly cutting and digging to uncover and display the internal mechanisms behind external actions. Most of this painful operation occurs in Houyhnhnmland where Swift lays bare the components of human nature. As part of his lecture, Swift offers Houyhnhnmland as a representation of the human mind wh...

The understanding of nature. Essays in the philosophy of biology

his literary evidence in a commonsense fashion with a sensible literary critical approach devoid of flights of Freudian fancy, which are now hopefully going out of fashion. He deals first with Pope's Dunciad, underlining the importance to it of a theme of madness, and then with Swift, and with Johnson's melancholia. The "English malady", also melancholy, typifies mid-century madness, but like r...

Literature of the Eighteenth Century

Eighteenth century in England was an age equal to the age of Augustus Caesar, when the Roman society had reached the peak of its glory. The name Augustan Age was chosen by writers who saw in Pope, Addison, Swift, Johnson and Burke the modern parallels to Horace, Virgil and Cicero, and all that brilliant company who made Roman literature famous in the day of Augustus. Past ages of England were l...

Madness and morals. Ideas on insanity in the nineteenth century