Literary notes about craze (AI summary)
The term "craze" is employed in literature to capture both individual and collective bouts of fervor, often highlighting periodic and sometimes irrational passions. Authors use it to denote a transient yet powerful enthusiasm, whether in the context of cultural or social movements, as seen in a religious zeal for reconstruction [1] or the sweeping occult mania that spread across Europe [2, 3]. In other instances, it underscores personal obsessions—ranging from an insatiable wanderlust in youth [4] to a habitual infatuation with new pursuits that define a character’s temperament [5]. This versatility makes "craze" a particularly evocative term, one that conveys the contagious, impermanent, and sometimes capricious nature of human interest.
- Even Christianity did not escape the craze for reconstruction.
— from The Religions of Japan, from the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by William Elliot Griffis - But it is important that the latter point should be further emphasized in connexion with the craze for occultism that is spreading through society.
— from Secret societies and subversive movements by Nesta Helen Webster - This was a recrudescence of the old craze for occultism, which now spread like wildfire all over Europe from Bordeaux to St. Petersburg.
— from Secret societies and subversive movements by Nesta Helen Webster - "I had the craze for travel in my blood as a boy."
— from The Lightning Conductor Discovers America by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson - He has got a new craze, and it always takes him that way, in its first stage.
— from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
