Empiricist devotions : science, religion, and poetry in early eighteenth-century England

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

Author/creator	Smith, Courtney Weiss
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2016.
Description	viii, 280 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subject(s)	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.

Series	Winner of the Walker Cowen Memorial Prize for an outstanding work of scholarship in eighteenth-century studies
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.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Genre/form	Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Genre/form	History.
LCCN	2015022491
ISBN	9780813938387
ISBN	0813938384 (cloth ; alk. paper)
ISBN	(e-book)

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	General Stacks	PR555.S33 S65 2016	✔ Available	Place Hold