Literature and Natural Theology in Early Modern England

Cover
Half-title
Title page
Imprints page
Dedication
Contents
List of Figures
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
	Defining \'\'Literature\'\' and \'\'Natural Theology\'\'
	Natural Theology in the Scientific Revolution
	The Book of Nature in Historiography and Literary Criticism
	Literature and Natural Theology in Seventeenth-Century England
Part I Metaphysical Poets
	Chapter 1 A \'\'Metaphorical God\'\' and the Book of Nature: John Donne on Natural Theology
		Natural Theology in Renaissance Europe
		Bacon on Natural Theology
		Body as Book: Apprehension of the Divine through the Sensible in Donne\'s Lyric Poems
		Donne on Natural Theology
		Donne and the Natural World
		Metaphorical Nature, Metaphorical God
	Chapter 2 \'\'I Summon\'d Nature\'\': George Herbert and Henry Vaughan on Science and Nature
		Science
		Nature
	Chapter 3 \'\'Mutters of Assent\'\' or \'\'Lectures for the Eye\'\': Natural Theology in the Devotional Lyrics of Herbert and Vaughan
		Conclusion
Part II Imagined Worlds
	Chapter 4 \'\'Architect of Wonders\'\': Creation in Cavendish, Du Bartas, Hutchinson, Denham, and Marvell
		Analogy of Being and Natural Theology
		Equivocal Metaphysics in Margaret Cavendish\'s The Blazing World
		Univocal and Analogical Metaphysics in Seventeenth-Century Biblical Epic
		Divine and Human Design in Local Poetry
		Conclusion
	Chapter 5 \'\'His Footstep Trace\'\': The Natural Theology of Paradise Lost
		Milton among the Natural Theologians
		Natural Theology and Paradise Lost
		Unfallen Natural Theology in Paradise Lost
		Fallen Reason and Natural Theology
	Chapter 6 The Misunderstood Spider: John Bunyan Reads the Book of Nature
		Bunyan, Puritans, and Natural Theology
		Robert Boyle and the Occasional Meditation
		The Book of Nature in The Pilgrim\'s Progress
		Conclusion: Bunyan\'s Book for Boys and Girls
Epilogue: Literature and Natural Theology at the Dawn of the Boyle Lectures
Works Cited
Index