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The fringes of belief : English literature, ancient heresy, and the politics of freethinking, 1660-1760 / Sarah Ellenzweig.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ellenzweig, Sarah.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--18th century--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.
- Free thought in literature.
- Christianity and literature--England--History--17th century.
- Christianity and literature.
- Christianity and literature--England--History--18th century.
- Free thought--England--History--17th century.
- Free thought.
- Free thought--England--History--18th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (255 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A literary study of freethinking and religious skepticism in the English Enlightenment. Ellenzweig argues that a literature of English freethinking has been overlooked because it unexpectedly supported aspects of institutional religion. She analyzes works by, among others, John Wilmot, Aphra Behn, Swift and Pope.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-227 ) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780804769792
- 0804769796
- OCLC:
- 471131123
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