Empiricist devotions : science, religion, and poetry in early eighteenth-century England / Courtney Weiss Smith.
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TextSeries: Winner of the Walker Cowen Memorial Prize for an outstanding work of scholarship in eighteenth-century studiesPublisher: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2016Description: 1 online resourceContent type: - text
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- English poetry -- 18th century -- History and criticism
- Literature and science -- England -- History -- 18th century
- Science and the humanities -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
- Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 18th century
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- English poetry
- Intellectual life
- Literature and science
- Science and the humanities
- England
- Great Britain
- 1700-1799
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- PR555.S33 S65 2016eb
- Winner of the Walker Cowen Memorial Prize for an outstanding work of scholarship in eighteenth-century studies
Winner of the Walker Cowen Memorial Prize for an outstanding work of scholarship in eighteenth-century studies.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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Winner of the Walker Cowen Memorial Prize for an outstanding work of scholarship in eighteenth-century studies
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