The book of God: secularization and design in the romantic era

Preface

Introduction: Nature Is the Book of God

1. The Argument Against Design from Deism to Blake

2. Arbitrary Acts of Mind: Natural Theology in Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion

3. Theory, Practice, and Anna Barbauld

4. Natural Designs: William Paley, Immanuel Kant, and the Power of Analogy

5. Mansfield Park and the End of Natural Theology

6. Wordsworth: The Shape of Analogy

7. Reading with a Worthy Eye: Secularization and Evil

8. Religion Three Ways

Afterword: Intelligent Design and Religious Ignoramuses; or, the Difference Between Theory and Literature

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index

Acknowledgments