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

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Auteur principal: Ellenzweig, Sarah
Collectivité auteur: ebrary, Inc
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:anglais
Publié: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2008.
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Table des matières:
  • 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.