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Focusing particularly on literary texts, but including biographical and intellectual background, this study examines numinous feeling as it is recorded by a number of seventeenth and eighteenth-century writers: Browne, Drydcn, Pascal; Pope and Swift; Hume and Johnson; eight other poets, including Watts, Smart, Cowper, and Blake; and four novelists, including Richardson, Radcliffe, and Monk"" Lewis. Professor Stock demonstrates that the Enlightenment was far more complicated than can be grasped by an exclusive focus on its rationalism and skepticism. Originally published in 1982. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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Author:   Robert D. Stock
Publisher:   Princeton University Press
Imprint:   Princeton University Press
Volume:   2888
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.482kg
ISBN:  

9780691642208

ISBN 10:   0691642206
Pages:   408
Publication Date:   19 April 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Language:   English

Table of Contents

*FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. vii*Plates, pg. ix*Introductory. The Demons and the Scholars, pg. 3*Chapter I. The Plurality of Brave New Worlds: the Numen and the Lumen, pg. 9*CHAPTER II. High Doctrines of the Holy: The Supposed Fideism of Sir Thomas Browne, Dryden, and Pascal, pg. 24*Chapter III. The Witch of Endor and the Gadarene Swine: The Debate over Witchcraft and Miracles in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, pg. 61*CHAPTER IV. Propping with a Twig: Rationalism and Daemonianism in Pope and Swift, pg. 117*Chapter V. Terror and Awe in Mid-Century Poetry: Watts, Akenside, Thomson, Young, pg. 161*CHAPTER VI. Skeptical and Reverent Empiricism: Hume and Johnson, pg. 201*CHAPTER VII. Spiritual Horror in the Novel: Richardson, Radcliffe, Beckford, Lewis, pg. 259*CHAPTER VIII. Religious Love and Fear in Late Century Poetry: Smart, Wesley, Cowper, Blake, pg. 314*EPILOGUE. The Next Stage, pg. 374*INDEX, pg. 387

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