Joseph Glanvill : A Study in English Thought and Letters of the Seventeenth Century

A study of the works and ideas of Joseph Glanvill, with a brief sketch of his life and English Philosophy of his time. Topic include Glanvill's philosophy, his latitudinarian theology, his ghost stories, belief in witchcraft, and investigation into psychic phenomena, and his prose and critical theories. Preface Contents I. The Tendencies of English Thought 1579–1660 II. The Cambridge Platonists III. Glanvill’s Life and the Order of His Writings IV. The Philosophy of Glanvill V. Latitudinarian Theology VI. Ghost Stories and Witchcraft VII. Glanvill as a Man Of Letters Appendix Index