Early modern skepticism contributed to literary invention, aesthetic pleasure, and the uneven process of secularization in England.

This ambitious account of skepticism's effects on major authors of England's Golden Age shows how key philosophical problems inspired literary innovations in po

This volume examines five early modern novels from the seventeenth century in Spain and France as examples of literature as a form of skeptical inquiry: Cervant

The central thesis of this book is that skepticism was instrumental to the defense of orthodox religion and the development of the identity of the Church of Eng

These essays throw new light on the complex relations between science, literature and rhetoric as avenues to discovery in early modern England. Analyzing the co