The fringes of belief English literature, ancient heresy, and the politics of freethinking, 1660-1760 /
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Stanford, Calif. :
Stanford University Press,
c2008.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.