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Empiricist Devotions - Science, Religion, and Poetry in Early Eighteenth-Century England (Hardcover)
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Empiricist Devotions - Science, Religion, and Poetry in Early Eighteenth-Century England (Hardcover)
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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 Studies
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