CHAPTER IV. Propping with a Twig: Rationalism and Daemonianism in Pope and Swift

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Plates ix
4. Introductory. The Demons and the Scholars 3
5. Chapter I. The Plurality of Brave New Worlds: the Numen and the Lumen 9
6. CHAPTER II. High Doctrines of the Holy: The Supposed Fideism of Sir Thomas Browne, Dryden, and Pascal 24
7. Chapter III. The Witch of Endor and the Gadarene Swine: The Debate over Witchcraft and Miracles in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries 61
8. CHAPTER IV. Propping with a Twig: Rationalism and Daemonianism in Pope and Swift 117
9. Chapter V. Terror and Awe in Mid-Century Poetry: Watts, Akenside, Thomson, Young 161
10. CHAPTER VI. Skeptical and Reverent Empiricism: Hume and Johnson 201
11. CHAPTER VII. Spiritual Horror in the Novel: Richardson, Radcliffe, Beckford, Lewis 259
12. CHAPTER VIII. Religious Love and Fear in Late Century Poetry: Smart, Wesley, Cowper, Blake 314
13. EPILOGUE. The Next Stage 374
14. INDEX 387