HIS 3355: The Long 18th Century: Europe in a Wider World

This essay argues for Edward Young's central position as a Counter-Enlightenment figure. It rejects a critical tradition that has aligned his popular poem, Night Thoughts (1742-45), with Newtonian physico-theology and Enlightenment forms of religiosity

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