Past Member
Nicholas McDowell
Funding provided by the Herodotus Fund
Affiliation
Historical Studies
Field of Study
Early Modern European Cultural History
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Nicholas McDowell is working on ideas about the mortality of the soul in Britain c. 1550-1700, exploring their manifestations in poetry (Donne, Milton, Dryden) as much as theology and philosophy (Hobbes, Locke) to reflect on the tensions between a tradition of poetic idealism and the rise of a materialistic modernity.
Dates at IAS
Member
School of Historical Studies
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Fall
Degrees
Oxford
Ph.D.
2000