The English Deists


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Interprets the works of an important group of writers known as 'the English deists'. This title argues that this interpretation reads Romantic conceptions of religious identity into a period in which it was lacking. It contextualizes these writers within the early Enlightenment, which was multivocal, plural and in search of self definition.



















Rethinking the Secular Origins of the Novel


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Challenging concepts of religion and secularism, this book shows the English novel rising with the English Bible, not after it.







New Letters of David Hume


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This volume, first published in 1954, is one of three presenting the correspondence of David Hume. It collects letters from 1737 to 1776 which do not appear in J. Y. T. Greig's two volumes of 1932, and offers a rich picture of the man and his age. The correspondents include such famous thinkers as Adam Smith, James Boswell, and Benjamin Franklin.




The Sceptical Realism of David Hume


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