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Autore |
Ellenzweig Sarah |
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Titolo |
The fringes of belief [[electronic resource] ] : English literature, ancient heresy, and the politics of freethinking, 1660-1760 / / Sarah Ellenzweig |
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Stanford, Calif., : Stanford University Press, c2008 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (255 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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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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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-227 ) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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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Sommario/riassunto |
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A literary study of freethinking and religious skepticism in the English Enlightenment. Ellenzweig argues that a literature of English freethinking has been overlooked because it unexpectedly supported aspects of institutional religion. She analyzes works by, among others, John Wilmot, Aphra Behn, Swift and Pope. |
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