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Lucretian Thought in Late Stuart England
Laura Linker
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Description for Lucretian Thought in Late Stuart England
Hardback. How did writers understand the soul in late seventeenth-century England? This book considers depictions of the soul in literary texts that engage with Lucretius's Epicurean philosophy in De rerum natura or through the writings of the most important natural philosopher to disseminate Epicurean atomism in England, Walter Charleton (1619-1707). Num Pages: 94 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 3JD; DSBD; HPCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 274.
How did writers understand the soul in late seventeenth-century England? This book considers depictions of the soul in literary texts that engage with Lucretius's Epicurean philosophy in De rerum natura or through the writings of the most important natural philosopher to disseminate Epicurean atomism in England, Walter Charleton (1619-1707).
How did writers understand the soul in late seventeenth-century England? This book considers depictions of the soul in literary texts that engage with Lucretius's Epicurean philosophy in De rerum natura or through the writings of the most important natural philosopher to disseminate Epicurean atomism in England, Walter Charleton (1619-1707).
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
94
Condition
New
Number of Pages
86
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137398574
SKU
V9781137398574
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About Laura Linker
Laura Linker is Assistant Professor of English at High Point University, USA.
Reviews for Lucretian Thought in Late Stuart England
“Linker’s book is intended to be a precisely focused study, somewhere in between a long scholarly article and an academic monograph (her entire text comes to a succinct eighty-two pages). Overall, this work succeeds within these modest confines: it is a concise, lucid, and insightful account of an unduly neglected topic in early modern literary studies.” (Jacqueline Broad, Eighteenth-Century Fiction, ... Read more