Smith, Courtney Weiss,

Empiricist devotions : science, religion, and poetry in early eighteenth-century England / Courtney Weiss Smith. - 1 online resource - 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.

Winner of the Walker Cowen Memorial Prize for an outstanding work of scholarship in eighteenth-century studies

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22573/ctt19xwh18 JSTOR


1700-1799


English poetry--History and criticism.--18th century
Literature and science--History--England--18th century.
Science and the humanities--History--Great Britain--18th century.
LITERARY CRITICISM--European--English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English poetry.
Intellectual life.
Literature and science.
Science and the humanities.


Great Britain--Intellectual life--18th century.
England.
Great Britain.


Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

PR555.S33 / S65 2016eb

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