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02930aam a2200373 i 4500 001 94367C38403511EB87AA299C42ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20201217010015 008 200203t20202020enk b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2020004268 020 $a 1108835902 020 $a 9781108835909 035 $a (OCoLC)1135667921 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d OCLCQ $d YDX $d OKX $d CHVBK $d OCLCO $d BNG $d IaU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PR858.A785 $b R44 2020 082 00 $a 823/.509382118 $2 23 100 1 $a Reeves, James $q (James Bryant), $e author. 245 10 $a Godless fictions in the eighteenth century : $b a literary history of atheism / $c James Bryant Reeves. 264 1 $a Cambridge, United Kingdom ; $b Cambridge University Press, $c 2020. 300 $a viii, 288 pages ; $c 24 cm 520 $a "Although there were no self-avowed British atheists before the 1780s, authors including Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, Sarah Fielding, Phebe Gibbes, and William Cowper worried extensively about atheism's dystopian possibilities, and routinely represented atheists as being beyond the pale of human sympathy. Challenging traditional formulations of secularization that equate modernity with unbelief, Reeves reveals how reactions against atheism rather helped sustain various forms of religious belief throughout the Age of Enlightenment. He demonstrates that hostility to unbelief likewise produced various forms of religious ecumenicalism, with authors depicting non-Christian theists from around Britain's emerging empire as sympathetic allies in the fight against irreligion. Godless Fictions in the Eighteenth Century traces a literary history of atheism in eighteenth-century Britain for the first time, revealing a relationship between atheism and secularization far more fraught than has previously been supposed."--Publisher's description. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-275) and index. 505 0 $a Introduction: An age of atheism -- A complete system of atheism: Jonathan Swift -- Godless dunces: Alexander Pope -- The limits of self: Sarah Fielding -- Gender and the Orient: Phebe Gibbes -- Ecumenical poetics: William Cowper -- Coda: Sympathy and unbelief: Percy Shelley. 648 7 $a 1700-1799 $2 fast 650 0 $a English fiction $y 18th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Atheism in literature. 650 7 $a Atheism in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00819984 650 7 $a English fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00910817 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 776 08 $i Online version: $a Reeves, James (James Bryant). $t Godless fictions in the eighteenth century. $d Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020 $z 9781108869461 $w (DLC) 2020004269 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20220317020729.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=94367C38403511EB87AA299C42ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search