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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.