Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction 1
4. Chapter 1. Toward a Voluntarist Aesthetic 15
5. Chapter 2. Glorious Arbitrariness: Science, Religion, and the Imagination of Infinite Variety 33
6. Chapter 3. Energy and Structure: Remaking the Given in Blackmore and Pope 69
7. Chapter 4. Embarrassed Invention: Stillingfleet, Locke, and the Style of Voluntarism 108
8. Chapter 5. The Constructive Swift: Between the Hope and Fear of Decomposition 134
9. Chapter 6. The Providence of Gathering and Scattering: Dynamic Variety in Defoe 172
10. Conclusion 209
11. Notes 213
12. Index 255
13. Acknowledgments 261