The fringes of belief : English literature, ancient heresy, and the politics of freethinking, 1660-1760, Sarah Ellenzweig, (electronic resource)

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The fringes of belief : English literature, ancient heresy, and the politics of freethinking, 1660-1760, Sarah Ellenzweig, (electronic resource)

Title remainder

English literature, ancient heresy, and the politics of freethinking, 1660-1760

Medium

electronic resource

Statement of responsibility

Sarah Ellenzweig

Instantiates

• The fringes of belief : English literature, ancient heresy, and the politics of freethinking, 1660-1760

Publication

• Stanford, Calif., Stanford University Press, c2008

Bibliography note

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

Color

multicolored

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

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ebr10313976

Dimensions

23 cm

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unknown

Extent

xii, 240 p.

Form of item

electronic

Record ID

.b24545132

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Electronic reproduction.

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remote