Romantic atheism : poetry and freethought, 1780-1830 /

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Author / Creator:	Priestman, Martin, 1949-
Imprint:	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Description:	xiii, 307 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Cambridge studies in Romanticism 37
Subject:	English poetry -- 19th century -- History and criticism. Atheism -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century. English poetry -- 18th century -- History and criticism. Atheism -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century. Romanticism -- Great Britain. Freethinkers -- Great Britain. Atheism in literature. Atheism. English poetry. Freethinkers. Atheism in literature. Romanticism. Great Britain. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4442854

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ISBN:	0521621240 (hardback)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-295) and index.

Table of Contents:

List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. The atheism debate, 1780âÇô1800
2. Masters of the universe: Lucretius, Sir William Jones, Richard Payne Knight and Erasmus Darwin
3. And did those feet? Blake in the 1790s
4. The tribes of mind: the Coleridge circle in the 1790s
5. Whatsoe'er is dim and vast: Wordsworth in the 1790s
6. Temples of reason: atheist strategies, 1800âÇô1830
7. Pretty paganism: the Shelley generation in the 1810s
Conclusion
Glossary of theological and other terms
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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