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Author:

Smith, Courtney Weiss, author.

Title:

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

Publisher:

University of Virginia Press,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

viii, 280 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Subject:

English poetry--18th century--History and criticism.
Literature and science--England--History--18th century.
Science and the humanities--Great Britain--History--18th century.
Great Britain--Intellectual life--18th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-267) and index.

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" -- Empiricist subjects, providential nature, and social contracts -- Georgic realism, an empirical-devotional poetics.

Series:

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

ISBN:

0813938384
9780813938387

OCLC:

(OCoLC)916684412

LCCN:

2015022491

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)