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Author:

Ellenzweig, Sarah. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2008040781

Title:

The fringes of belief : English literature, ancient heresy, and the politics of freethinking, 1660-1760 / Sarah Ellenzweig.

Publisher:

Stanford University Press,

Copyright Date:

2008

Description:

xii, 240 pages ; 23 cm

Subject:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [209]-227 ) and index.

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.

ISBN:

0804758778
9780804758772

OCLC:

(OCoLC)213480108

LCCN:

2008011777

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)