The holy and the daemonic from Sir Thomas Browne to William Blake /

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Focusing particularly on literary texts, but including biographical and intellectual background, this study examines numinous feeling as it is recorded by a number of seventeenth and eighteenth-century writers: Browne, Drydcn, Pascal; Pope and Swift; Hume and Johnson; eight other poets, including Wa...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Stock, R. D. (Robert D.), 1941- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1982]
Temas:
1500-1799
English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism.
English literature > 18th century > History and criticism.
Religion in literature.
Littérature anglaise > 18e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Religion dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English literature
English literature > Early modern
Religion in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Plates
  • Introductory. The Demons and the Scholars
  • Chapter I. The Plurality of Brave New Worlds: the Numen and the Lumen
  • CHAPTER II. High Doctrines of the Holy: The Supposed Fideism of Sir Thomas Browne, Dryden, and Pascal
  • Chapter III. The Witch of Endor and the Gadarene Swine: The Debate over Witchcraft and Miracles in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
  • CHAPTER IV. Propping with a Twig: Rationalism and Daemonianism in Pope and Swift
  • Chapter V. Terror and Awe in Mid-Century Poetry: Watts, Akenside, Thomson, Young
  • CHAPTER VI. Skeptical and Reverent Empiricism: Hume and Johnson
  • CHAPTER VII. Spiritual Horror in the Novel: Richardson, Radcliffe, Beckford, Lewis
  • CHAPTER VIII. Religious Love and Fear in Late Century Poetry: Smart, Wesley, Cowper, Blake
  • EPILOGUE. The Next Stage
  • INDEX

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