Courtney Weiss Smith Empiricist Devotions (Paperback) (UK IMPORT)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: Empiricist DevotionsCondition: NewFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 07/27/2023Subtitle: Science, Religion, and Poetry in Early Eighteenth-Century EnglandEAN: 9780813950716ISBN: 9780813950716Publisher: University of Virginia PressDescription: Featuring a moment in late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century England before the disciplinary divisions that we inherit today were established, Empiricist Devotions recovers a kind of empiricist thinking in which the techniques and emphases of science, religion, and literature combined and cooperated. This brand of empiricism was committed to particularized scrutiny and epistemological modesty. It was Protestant in its enabling premises and meditative practices. It earnestly affirmed that figurative language provided crucial tools for interpreting the divinely written world. Smith recovers this empiricism in Robert Boyle’s analogies, Isaac Newton’s metaphors, John Locke’s narratives, Joseph Addison’s personifications, Daniel Defoe’s diction, John Gay’s periphrases, and Alexander Pope’s descriptive particulars. She thereby demonstrates that "literary" language played a key role in shaping and giving voice to the concerns of eighteenth-century science and religion alike.Empiricist Devotions combines intellectual history with close readings of a wide variety of texts, from sermons, devotional journals, and economic tracts to georgic poems, it-narratives, and microscopy treatises. This prizewinning book has important implications for our understanding of cultural and literary history, as scholars of the period’s science have not fully appreciated figurative language’s central role in empiricist thought, while scholars of its religion and literature have neglected the serious empiricist commitments motivating richly figurative devotional and poetic texts.Winner of the Walker Cowen Memorial Prize for an Outstanding Work of Scholarship in Eighteenth-Century StudiesLanguage: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmItem Width: 25mmItem Weight: 272gAuthor: Courtney Weiss SmithGenre: Literary CriticismISBN-10: 0813950716Type: Science & ReligionRelease Year: 2023 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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