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

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Bibliografiske detaljer
Hovedforfatter:	Ellenzweig, Sarah
Institution som forfatter:	ebrary, Inc
Format:	Electronisk eBog
Sprog:	engelsk
Udgivet:	Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2008.
Fag:	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.
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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.