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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, Courtney Weiss.

Series:

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English poetry--18th century--History and criticism.

English poetry.

Literature and science--England--History--18th century.

Literature and science.

Science and the humanities--Great Britain--History--18th century.

Science and the humanities.

History.

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

Great Britain.

Intellectual life.

England.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

viii, 280 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2016.

Contents:

Occasional meditation, an empirical-devotional mode

Deus in machina: popular newtonianism's visions of the clockwork-world

Money, meaning, and a "foundation in nature"

Social contracts, empiricist subjects, and providential nature

Georgic realism, an empirical-devotional poetics.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780813938387

0813938384

OCLC:

916684412