English literature, ancient heresy, and the politics of freethinking, 1660-1760 /
First Statement of Responsibility
Sarah Ellenzweig
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
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Stanford, Calif. :
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Stanford University Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
c2008
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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xii, 240 p. ;
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24 cm
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-227) and index
CONTENTS NOTE
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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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TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Christianity and literature-- England-- History-- 17th century
Christianity and literature-- England-- History-- 18th century
English literature-- 18th century-- History and criticism
English literature-- Early modern, 1500-1700-- History and criticism