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Joseph Glanvill : A Study in English Thought and Letters of the Seventeenth Century / Ferris Greenslet.
De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Archive 1658-1999 Available online
De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Archive 1658-1999- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Greenslet, Ferris, author.
- Series:
- Columbia University Studies in English
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1900]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- A study of the works and ideas of Joseph Glanvill, with a brief sketch of his life and English Philosophy of his time. Topic include Glanvill's philosophy, his latitudinarian theology, his ghost stories, belief in witchcraft, and investigation into psychic phenomena, and his prose and critical theories.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Contents
- I. The Tendencies of English Thought 1579-1660
- II. The Cambridge Platonists
- III. Glanvill's Life and the Order of His Writings
- IV. The Philosophy of Glanvill
- V. Latitudinarian Theology
- VI. Ghost Stories and Witchcraft
- VII. Glanvill as a Man Of Letters
- Appendix
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)
- ISBN:
- 0-231-88506-7
- OCLC:
- 697929937
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