Devil and Doctor Dwight

by Colin Wells and Colin Wells

Book Overview

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 meaning of the threat of infidelity in the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807853836
• ISBN13: 9780807853832
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: Omohundro Institute and Unc Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 8.6"