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Echoes Of Leibniz In Pope’S Essay On Man: Criticism And Cultural Shift In The Eighteenth Century, Sierra Billingslea 2017 University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Echoes Of Leibniz In Pope’S Essay On Man: Criticism And Cultural Shift In The Eighteenth Century, Sierra Billingslea

Pursuit - The Journal of Undergraduate Research at The University of Tennessee

This paper is an examination of the intellectual relationship between Alexander Pope’s An Essay on Man and the philosophy of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. This relationship was accentuated by Crousaz, a Swiss critic, who accused Pope of plagiarizing Leibniz’s misguided philosophy due to the evidence of Leibniz’s Principle of the Best, Principle of Sufficient Reason, and Principle of Continuity found within An Essay on Man. This paper argues that both Leibniz and Popes’ philosophies do not reflect a direct relationship but instead share the spirit of Augustan thought as well as a similar classical upbringing. Crousaz and other critics who criticized …


The Duchess Of Suffolk / Edited By Richard Dutton And Steven K. Galbraith, Kevin T. Gates 2017 Clemson University

The Duchess Of Suffolk / Edited By Richard Dutton And Steven K. Galbraith, Kevin T. Gates

Early Modern Culture

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Queer Philologies: Sex, Language, And Affect In Shakespeare's Time / Jeffrey Masten, Andy Kesson 2017 Clemson University

Queer Philologies: Sex, Language, And Affect In Shakespeare's Time / Jeffrey Masten, Andy Kesson

Early Modern Culture

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Missing Shakespeare's Law: Some Writing About Some Reading About Close Reading, Karen Cunningham 2017 Clemson University

Missing Shakespeare's Law: Some Writing About Some Reading About Close Reading, Karen Cunningham

Early Modern Culture

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Fair Copies: Reproducing The English Lyric From Tottel To Shakespeare / Matthew Zarnowiecki, Emily Ruth Issacson 2017 Clemson University

Fair Copies: Reproducing The English Lyric From Tottel To Shakespeare / Matthew Zarnowiecki, Emily Ruth Issacson

Early Modern Culture

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The Dynamics Of Inheritance On The Shakespearean Stage / Michelle M. Dowd, Mary Learner 2017 Clemson University

The Dynamics Of Inheritance On The Shakespearean Stage / Michelle M. Dowd, Mary Learner

Early Modern Culture

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Thinking Sex With The Early Moderns / Valerie Traub, James Beaver 2017 Clemson University

Thinking Sex With The Early Moderns / Valerie Traub, James Beaver

Early Modern Culture

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An Invitation To Play: Sleep No More / Punchdrunk At The Mckittrick Hotel, Shannon McHugh, Alice Fischetti, Mohammad Sadic, Amy Moore 2017 Clemson University

An Invitation To Play: Sleep No More / Punchdrunk At The Mckittrick Hotel, Shannon Mchugh, Alice Fischetti, Mohammad Sadic, Amy Moore

Early Modern Culture

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Folio Rodeo: Shakespeare's First Folio Visits Texas, Lauren Liebe 2017 Clemson University

Folio Rodeo: Shakespeare's First Folio Visits Texas, Lauren Liebe

Early Modern Culture

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Love's Labour's Lost & Won / Royal Shakespeare Company, Mary L. Hjelm 2017 Clemson University

Love's Labour's Lost & Won / Royal Shakespeare Company, Mary L. Hjelm

Early Modern Culture

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Henry Vi, Part 2 / Cincinnati Shakespeare Company, Marcia Eppich-Harris 2017 Clemson University

Henry Vi, Part 2 / Cincinnati Shakespeare Company, Marcia Eppich-Harris

Early Modern Culture

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The Public Theater's Free Shakespeare In The Park Troilus And Cressida / Delacorte Theater, Central Park, Stephanie Pietros 2017 Clemson University

The Public Theater's Free Shakespeare In The Park Troilus And Cressida / Delacorte Theater, Central Park, Stephanie Pietros

Early Modern Culture

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Posthuman Lear: Reading Shakespeare In The Anthropocene / Craig Dionne, Karen Raber 2017 Clemson University

Posthuman Lear: Reading Shakespeare In The Anthropocene / Craig Dionne, Karen Raber

Early Modern Culture

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Metropolitan Tragedy: Genre, Justice, And The City In Early Modern England / Marissa Greenberg, Ronda Arab 2017 Clemson University

Metropolitan Tragedy: Genre, Justice, And The City In Early Modern England / Marissa Greenberg, Ronda Arab

Early Modern Culture

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Male To Female Crossdressing In Early Modern English Literature: Gender, Performance, And Queer Relations / Simone Chess, John Garrison 2017 Clemson University

Male To Female Crossdressing In Early Modern English Literature: Gender, Performance, And Queer Relations / Simone Chess, John Garrison

Early Modern Culture

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Literature And The Law Of Nations, 1580-1680 / Christopher N. Warren, Jason E. Cohen 2017 Clemson University

Literature And The Law Of Nations, 1580-1680 / Christopher N. Warren, Jason E. Cohen

Early Modern Culture

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Tragedy And Trauma In The Plays Of Christopher Marlowe / Matthew R. Martin, Daniel G. Lauby 2017 Clemson University

Tragedy And Trauma In The Plays Of Christopher Marlowe / Matthew R. Martin, Daniel G. Lauby

Early Modern Culture

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The Future Of (Close) Reading, Jean Peterson 2017 Clemson University

The Future Of (Close) Reading, Jean Peterson

Early Modern Culture

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Close Reading: The Theory Which Is Not One, Jessica McCall 2017 Clemson University

Close Reading: The Theory Which Is Not One, Jessica Mccall

Early Modern Culture

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The Boke Of The Cyte Of Ladyes / Edited By Hope Johnston, Melanie Simoes Santos 2017 Clemson University

The Boke Of The Cyte Of Ladyes / Edited By Hope Johnston, Melanie Simoes Santos

Early Modern Culture

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