Empiricist Devotions : Science, Religion, and Poetry in Early Eighteenth-Century England /

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Featuring a moment in late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century England before the disciplinary divisions that we inherit today were established,Empiricist Devotionsrecovers a kind of empiricist thinking in which the techniques and emphases of science, religion, and literature combined and coop...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Smith, Courtney Weiss (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2016.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Science and the humanities.
Literature and science.
Intellectual life.
English poetry.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Sciences et sciences humaines > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 18e siecle.
Litterature et sciences > Angleterre > Histoire > 18e siecle.
Poesie anglaise > 18e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Science and the humanities > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Literature and science > England > History > 18th century.
English poetry > 18th century > History and criticism.
Great Britain.
England.
Grande-Bretagne > Vie intellectuelle > 18e siecle.
Great Britain > Intellectual life > 18th century.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Occasional meditation, an empirical-devotional mode
  • Deus in machina: popular Newtonianism's visions of the clockwork-world
  • Money, meaning, and a "foundation in nature"
  • Empiricist subjects, providential nature and social contracts
  • Georgic realism, an empirical-devotional poetics.

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