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Millenarianism and Messianism in English Literature and Thought 1650-1800 : Clark Library Lectures 1981-1982 / Clark Library Lectures 1981-1982 edited by Richard H. Popkin. - European History and Culture - Book Archive pre-2000 . - European History and Culture - Book Archive pre-2000. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / Editor: Richard H. Popkin -- List of Contributors / Editor: Richard H. Popkin -- Introduction / Richard H. Popkin -- “Till the Conversion of the Jews” / Christopher Hill -- England, Israel, and the Triumph of Roman Virtue / Steven N. Zwicker -- Bishop Berkeley’s Messianism / Harry M. Bracken -- Mysticism and Millenarianism: “Immortal Dr. Cheyne” / G.S. Rousseau -- Freemasonry and the Utopian Impulse / Margaret C. Jacob -- The Body of God in 17th Century Theology and Science / Amos Funkenstein -- On Reading Newton Apocalyptically / Arthur Quinn -- The Voice in the Text: Messianism, Millenarianism, and the Discourse of the Black in the Eighteenth-Century / Henry Lewis Gates.


English

ISBN: 9789004620315

Standard No.: 10.1163/9789004620315 DOI

Subjects--Topical Terms:
English literature--History and criticism.--Early modern, 1500-1700
Millennialism in literature.
Millennialism--History.--Great Britain

LC Class. No.: BR757

Dewey Class. No.: 236/.0942