The fringes of belief : English literature, ancient heresy, and the politics of freethinking, 1660-1760 /

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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, S...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Ellenzweig, Sarah
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, ©2008.
Subjects:
1500-1799
Christianity and literature > England > History > 17th century.
Christianity and literature > England > History > 18th century.
English literature > 18th century > History and criticism.
English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism.
Free thought in literature.
Free thought > England > History > 17th century.
Free thought > England > History > 18th century.
Christianisme et littérature > Angleterre > Histoire > 17e siècle.
Christianisme et littérature > Angleterre > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Littérature anglaise > 18e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Libre pensée > Angleterre > Histoire > 17e siècle.
Libre pensée > Angleterre > Histoire > 18e siècle.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Christianity and literature
English literature
English literature > Early modern
Free thought
Free thought in literature
England
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
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.

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