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]
Subjects:
1700-1799
English literature > 18th century > History and criticism.
Literary form > History > 18th century.
Order (Philosophy) in literature.
Voluntarism > History > 18th century.
Religion and literature > England > History > 18th century.
Littérature anglaise > 18e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Genres littéraires > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Ordre (Philosophie) dans la littérature.
Religion et littérature > Angleterre > Histoire > 18e siècle.
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
English literature.
Intellectual life.
Literary form.
Religion and literature.
Voluntarism.
England > Intellectual life > History > 18th century.
Angleterre > Vie intellectuelle > Histoire > 18e siècle.
England.
Alexander Pope.
British literature.
Daniel Defoe.
Eighteenth-century.
Empiricism.
John Locke.
Jonathan Swift.
Literary history.
Nominalism.
Richard Blackmore.
Rise of the novel.
Robert Boyle.
Secularization.
Thomas Hobbes.
Literary criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Critiques littéraires.
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.

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