The Holy and the Daemonic from Sir Thomas Browne to William Blake
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The Holy and the Daemonic from Sir Thomas Browne to William Blake

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The Holy and the Daemonic from Sir Thomas Browne to William Blake

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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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Table of Plates
  4. Introductory: The Demons and the Scholars
  5. I. The Plurality of Brave New Worlds: The Numen and the Lumen
  6. II. High Doctrines of the Holy: The Supposed Fideism of Sir Thomas Browne, Dryden, and Pascal
  7. III. The Witch of Endor and the Gadarene Swine: The Debate over Witchcraft and Miracles in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
  8. IV. Propping with a Twig: Rationalism and Daemonianism in Pope and Swift
  9. V. Terror and Awe in Mid-century Poetry: Watts, Akenside, Thomson, Young
  10. VI. Skeptical and Reverent Empiricism: Hume and Johnson
  11. VII. Spiritual Horror in the Novel: Richardson, Radcliffe, Beckford, Lewis
  12. VIII. Religious Love and Fear in Late-century Poetry: Smart, Wesley, Cowper, Blake
  13. Epilogue: The Next Stage
  14. Index