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Infinite variety : literary invention, theology, and the disorder of kinds, 1688-1730 /

Infinite Variety offers a brilliantly learned analysis of a seventeenth-century aesthetic framed not by the rise of secularism, but by its opposite, and embraced by English writers including Thomas Hobbes, Richard Blackmore, John Locke, Jonathan Swift, and Daniel Defoe.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Schmidgen, Wolfram (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2021]
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Toward a Voluntarist Aesthetic
  • Chapter 2. Glorious Arbitrariness: Science, Religion, and the Imagination of Infinite Variety
  • Chapter 3. Energy and Structure: Remaking the Given in Blackmore and Pope
  • Chapter 4. Embarrassed Invention: Stillingfleet, Locke, and the Style of Voluntarism
  • Chapter 5. The Constructive Swift: Between the Hope and Fear of Decomposition
  • Chapter 6. The Providence of Gathering and Scattering: Dynamic Variety in Defoe
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments.