Infinite Variety : : Literary Invention, Theology, and the Disorder of Kinds, 1688-1730 / / Wolfram Schmidgen.
Unnerved by the upheavals of the seventeenth century, English writers including Thomas Hobbes, Richard Blackmore, John Locke, Jonathan Swift, and Daniel Defoe came to accept that disorder, rather than order, was the natural state of things. They were drawn to voluntarism, a theology that emphasized...
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Toward a Voluntarist Aesthetic
- Chapter 2. Glorious Arbitrariness: Science, Religion, and the Imagination of Infinite Variety
- Chapter 3. Energy and Structure: Remaking the Given in Blackmore and Pope
- Chapter 4. Embarrassed Invention: Stillingfleet, Locke, and the Style of Voluntarism
- Chapter 5. The Constructive Swift: Between the Hope and Fear of Decomposition
- Chapter 6. The Providence of Gathering and Scattering: Dynamic Variety in Defoe
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Index
- Acknowledgments