The Fringes of Belief : English Literature, Ancient Heresy, and the Politics of Freethinking, 1660-1760.
Title:
The Fringes of Belief : English Literature, Ancient Heresy, and the Politics of Freethinking, 1660-1760.
Author:
Ellenzweig, Sarah.
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9780804769792
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (255 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Literary Culture, the Classical Past, and the Rise of Restoration Freethinking -- Part One: Libertine Precursors -- 1. Rochester, Blount, and the Faith of Unbelief -- 2. Behn, Fontenelle, and the Cheats of Revealed Religion -- Part Two: Skepticism and Piety -- 3. Swift's Tale of a Tub and the Anthropology of Religion -- 4. Suspending Disbelief: Swift, Credulity, and the Pious Fraud -- Conclusion: Pope's Essay on Man and the Afterlife of English Freethinking -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
The Fringes of Belief is the first literary study of freethinking and religious skepticism in the English Enlightenment.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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