The fringes of belief [electronic resource] : English literature, ancient heresy, and the politics of freethinking, 1660-1760 / Sarah Ellenzweig.
By: Ellenzweig, Sarah.
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Publisher: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2008Description: xii, 240 p. ; 23 cm.Subject(s): English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism | English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism | Free thought in literature | Christianity and literature -- England -- History -- 17th century | Christianity and literature -- England -- History -- 18th century | Free thought -- England -- History -- 17th century | Free thought -- England -- History -- 18th centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 820.9/382 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view | Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-227 ) and index.
Introduction : literary culture, the classical past, and the rise of Restoration freethinking -- Libertine precursors. Rochester, Blount, and the faith of unbelief -- Behn, Fontenelle, and the cheats of revealed religion -- Skepticism and piety. Swift's Tale of a tub and the anthropology of religion -- Suspending disbelief : Swift, credulity, and the pious fraud -- Conclusion : Pope's "Essay on man" and the afterlife of English freethinking.
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