The fringes of belief [[electronic resource] ] : English literature, ancient heresy, and the politics of freethinking, 1660-1760 / / Sarah Ellenzweig

• Autore: Ellenzweig Sarah
• Pubblicazione: Stanford, Calif., : Stanford University Press, c2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (255 p.)
• Disciplina: 820.9/382
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-227 ) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The fringes of belief
• ISBN: 0-8047-6979-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910454920303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II