The fringes of belief [electronic resource] : English literature, ancient heresy, and the politics of freethinking, 1660-1760 / Sarah Ellenzweig.
2008
PR445 .E45 2008eb
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The fringes of belief [electronic resource] : English literature, ancient heresy, and the politics of freethinking, 1660-1760 / Sarah Ellenzweig.
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9780804758772 (cloth : alk. paper)
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Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2008.
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English
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xii, 240 p. ; 23 cm.
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PR445 .E45 2008eb
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820.9/382
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-227 ) and index.
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Table of Contents
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.
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.