The fringes of belief
Subtitle: English literature, ancient heresy, and the politics of freethinking, 1660-1760
By: Sarah Ellenzweig.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780804758772
Subjects: 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 and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : literary culture, the classical past, and the rise of Restoration freethinking; title: Libertine precursors. Rochester, Blount, and the faith of unbelief; title: Behn, Fontenelle, and the cheats of revealed religion; title: Skepticism and piety. Swift's Tale of a tub and the anthropology of religion; title: Suspending disbelief : Swift, credulity, and the pious fraud; title: Conclusion : Pope's "Essay on man" and the afterlife of English freethinking.