LEADER 03299nam 22007334a 450 001 9910454920303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8047-6979-6 024 7 $a10.1515/9780804769792 035 $a(CKB)1000000000793427 035 $a(OCoLC)471131123 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10313976 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000279667 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11229703 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000279667 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10268087 035 $a(PQKB)10098230 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000127690 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3037574 035 $a(DE-B1597)564236 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780804769792 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3037574 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10313976 035 $a(OCoLC)923700039 035 $a(OCoLC)1198931400 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000793427 100 $a20080314d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe fringes of belief$b[electronic resource] $eEnglish literature, ancient heresy, and the politics of freethinking, 1660-1760 /$fSarah Ellenzweig 210 $aStanford, Calif. $cStanford University Press$dc2008 215 $a1 online resource (255 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8047-5877-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [209]-227 ) and index. 327 $aIntroduction : 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. 330 8 $aA 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. 606 $aEnglish literature$y18th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEnglish literature$yEarly modern, 1500-1700$xHistory and criticism 606 $aFree thought in literature 606 $aChristianity and literature$zEngland$xHistory$y17th century 606 $aChristianity and literature$zEngland$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aFree thought$zEngland$xHistory$y17th century 606 $aFree thought$zEngland$xHistory$y18th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aFree thought in literature. 615 0$aChristianity and literature$xHistory 615 0$aChristianity and literature$xHistory 615 0$aFree thought$xHistory 615 0$aFree thought$xHistory 676 $a820.9/382 700 $aEllenzweig$b Sarah$01056128 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910454920303321 996 $aThe fringes of belief$92490243 997 $aUNINA