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Author Smith, Courtney Weiss, author.

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

Publication Info. Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2016.

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Winner of the Walker Cowen Memorial Prize for an outstanding work of scholarship in eighteenth-century studies
Note Winner of the Walker Cowen Memorial Prize for an outstanding work of scholarship in eighteenth-century studies
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references 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.
Awards Winner of the Walker Cowen Memorial Prize for an outstanding work of scholarship in eighteenth-century studies
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject English poetry -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
English poetry.
Chronological Term 18th century
Subject Literature and science -- England -- History -- 18th century.
Literature and science.
England.
History.
Science and the humanities -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
Science and the humanities.
Great Britain.
Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 18th century.
Intellectual life.
Chronological Term 1700-1799
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Smith, Courtney Weiss. Empiricist devotions 9780813938387 (DLC) 2015022491 (OCoLC)916684412
ISBN 9780813938387 electronic book
0813938384 electronic book
9780813938394 electronic book
0813938392 electronic book