Passion and Language in Eighteenth-Century Literature : The Aesthetic Sublime in the Work of Eliza Haywood, Aaron Hill, and Martha Fowke

Providing imaginatively contextualized close readings, this study focuses on three key eighteenth-century writers - Haywood, Hill and Fowke. Wilputte traces the development of the passionate language of these writers whose lives, writing careers, and interests intersected from 1720 to 1724 in the "Hillarian" coterie.