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LEADER: 01647cam a22003014a 4500
001 2008011777
003 DLC
005 20090326102217.0
008 080314s2008 cau b 001 0 eng c
010 $a 2008011777
020 $a9780804758772 (cloth : alk. paper)
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050 00 $aPR445$b.E45 2008
082 00 $a820.9/382$222
100 1 $aEllenzweig, Sarah.
245 14 $aThe fringes of belief :$bEnglish literature, ancient heresy, and the politics of freethinking, 1660-1760 /$cSarah Ellenzweig.
260 $aStanford, Calif. :$bStanford University Press,$cc2008.
300 $axii, 240 p. ;$c23 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [209]-227 ) and index.
505 0 $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.
650 0 $aEnglish literature$y18th century$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aEnglish literature$yEarly modern, 1500-1700$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aFree thought in literature.
650 0 $aChristianity and literature$zEngland$xHistory$y17th century.
650 0 $aChristianity and literature$zEngland$xHistory$y18th century.
650 0 $aFree thought$zEngland$xHistory$y17th century.
650 0 $aFree thought$zEngland$xHistory$y18th century.