Devil and Doctor Dwight
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At the close of the eighteenth century, Timothy Dwight — poet, clergyman, and, later, president of Yale College — waged a literary and intellectual war against the forces of “infidelity.” The Devil and Doctor Dwight reexamines this episode by focusing on The Triumph of Infidelity (1788), the verse satire that launched Dwight’s campaign and, Colin Wells argues, the key to recovering the deeper mean...
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At the close of the eighteenth century, Timothy Dwight — poet, clergyman, and, later, president of Yale College — waged a literary and intellectual war against the forces of “infidelity.” The Devil and Doctor Dwight reexamines this episode by focusing on The Triumph of Infidelity (1788), the verse satire that launched Dwight’s campaign and, Colin Wells argues, the key to recovering the deeper mean...
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