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Introduction: mania as rhetoric; Part I. Defiant Voice: 1. 'Howl, yougreat ones': enthusiastic subjectivity as class rhetoric; 2. 'A huge loudvoice': leveling and the gendered body politic; 3. Strange acts and propheticpranks: apocalypse as process in Abiezer Coppe; Part II. Patrician Diagnosis:4. Return to madness: mania as plebeian vapors in Swift; Part III. BeautifulLiminality: 5. Scribe-evangelist: popular writing and enthusiasm in Smart'sJubilate Agno; 6. Double jeopardy: the provenance and reception of JubilateAgno; 7. Smart's bawdy politic: misogyny and the second Age of Horn inJubilate Agno; 8. Smart's poetics of place: myth versus utopia in JubilateAgno; Epilogue: beyond pathology.