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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.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Schmidgen, Wolfram (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2021]
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.