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The fringes of belief

by Ellenzweig, Sarah.
Additional authors: ebrary, Inc.
Published by : Stanford University Press, (Stanford, Calif. :) Physical details: xii, 240 p.
Subject(s): 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. | Electronic books.
Year: 2008
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-227 ) and index.

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.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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