The holy and the daemonic from Sir Thomas Browne to William Blake / R.D. Stock.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stock, R. D. (Robert D.), 1941- author.

Series:

Princeton Legacy Library ; 610

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.

English literature.

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

Religion in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (407 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

Course Book

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1982]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Focusing particularly on literary texts, but including biographical and intellectual background, this study examines numinous feeling as it is recorded by a number of seventeenth and eighteenth-century writers: Browne, Drydcn, Pascal; Pope and Swift; Hume and Johnson; eight other poets, including Watts, Smart, Cowper, and Blake; and four novelists, including Richardson, Radcliffe, and Monk" Lewis. Professor Stock demonstrates that the Enlightenment was far more complicated than can be grasped by an exclusive focus on its rationalism and skepticism.Originally published in 1982.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Plates

Introductory. The Demons and the Scholars

Chapter I. The Plurality of Brave New Worlds: the Numen and the Lumen

CHAPTER II. High Doctrines of the Holy: The Supposed Fideism of Sir Thomas Browne, Dryden, and Pascal

Chapter III. The Witch of Endor and the Gadarene Swine: The Debate over Witchcraft and Miracles in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

CHAPTER IV. Propping with a Twig: Rationalism and Daemonianism in Pope and Swift

Chapter V. Terror and Awe in Mid-Century Poetry: Watts, Akenside, Thomson, Young

CHAPTER VI. Skeptical and Reverent Empiricism: Hume and Johnson

CHAPTER VII. Spiritual Horror in the Novel: Richardson, Radcliffe, Beckford, Lewis

CHAPTER VIII. Religious Love and Fear in Late Century Poetry: Smart, Wesley, Cowper, Blake

EPILOGUE. The Next Stage

INDEX

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-691-64220-6

0-691-61460-1

1-4008-5705-8

OCLC:

889251066