"Infinite Variety offers an intellectual history of literary invention in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. It argues that the religious, political, and scientific revolutions of the preceding half century changed the way writers thought about the relationship between order a...

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1. Verfasser:	Schmidgen, Wolfram VerfasserIn (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Press [2021]
Schlagworte:	English literature / 18th century / History and criticism Literary form / History / 18th century Order (Philosophy) in literature Voluntarism / History / 18th century Religion and literature / England / History / 18th century English literature Intellectual life Literary form Religion and literature Voluntarism England / Intellectual life / History / 18th century England
Zusammenfassung:	"Infinite Variety offers an intellectual history of literary invention in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. It argues that the religious, political, and scientific revolutions of the preceding half century changed the way writers thought about the relationship between order and invention. Jointly, these revolutions helped foster the sense of a disorder of kinds that challenged the hierarchies that had seemed to organize nature and society. This sense converged around the mushrooming of new religious kinds in the seventeenth century (Quakers, Seekers, Ranters, Muggletonians, Deists, Socinians, etc.); the emergence of political parties in the 1680s and 1690s (Whig, Tory, Country, Low Church, High Church); the booming discovery of new animals and plants from distant and not-so-distant locations; and the demonstration by scientists that new kinds could be created experimentally
Beschreibung:	259 Seiten