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

Author/creator Smith, Courtney Weiss
Format Electronic
Publication InfoCharlottesville ; London : University of Virginia Press, 2016.
Descriptionviii, 280 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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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.
General note"Winner of the Walker Cowen Memorial Prize for an outstanding work of scholarship in eighteenth-century studies."
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 243-267) and index.
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LCCN 2015022491
ISBN9780813938387 (cloth : alk. paper)

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