The fringes of belief [electronic resource] : English literature, ancient heresy, and the politics of freethinking, 1660-1760 / Sarah Ellenzweig.
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TextPublication details: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2008.Description: xii, 240 pSubject(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 century
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- PR445 .E45 2008
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.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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