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