Katherine Calloway

Literature and Natural Theology in Early Modern England

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Produktbeschreibung

"Exploring the diverse forms of natural theology expressed in seventeenth-century English literature, Katherine Calloway reveals how, in ways only partially recognized until now, authors such as Donne, Herbert, Vaughan, Cavendish, Hutchinson, Milton, Marvell, and Bunyan describe, challenge, and even practice natural theology in their poetry"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 249
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 156mm x 236mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 540g
• ISBN-13: 9781009415262
• ISBN-10: 1009415263
• Artikelnr.: 68358770

Autorenporträt

Katherine Calloway is Assistant Professor of English at Baylor University. She has written extensively on early modern English literature as it intersects with science and theology. Her first book, Natural Theology in the Scientific Revolution, was published in 2014.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; Part I. Metaphysical Poets: 1. A 'Metaphorical God' and the
Book of Nature: John Donne on Natural theology; 2. 'I Summon'd Nature':
George Herbert and Henry Vaughan on science and nature; 3. 'Mutters of
Assent' or 'Lectures for the Eye': Natural theology in the devotional
lyrics of Herbert and Vaughan; Part II. Imagined Worlds: 4. 'Architect of
Wonders': Creation in Cavendish, Sylvester, Hutchinson, Denham and Marvell;
5. 'His Footstep Trace': the natural theology of Paradise Lost; 6. The
misunderstood spider: John Bunyan reads the Book of Nature; Epilogue:
Literature and natural theology at the dawn of the Boyle Lectures.