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Sarah Eron is assistant professor of English at the University of Rhode Island.
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1. Amused and Bemused: Shaftesbury’s Enthusiasm on the Social Stage
Chapter 2. "Eyes that Must Eclipse": Vain Enthusiasm in Pope’s The Rape of the Lock
Chapter 3. Curtain, Muse!: Invention and Poetic Example in Pope’s Invocations
Chapter 4. Genius, Muse: Inspiration and Invocation in Fielding’s Tom Jones
Chapter 5. The "Unknown" and the "Unveiled": Anna Barbauld’s Poetic Enthusiasms
Coda
Bibliography
About the Author
Eron makes a convincing case for the taming of enthusiasm within the very practice of Augustan satire.
— SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500-1900