TY - BOOK AU - Ellenzweig,Sarah ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - The fringes of belief: English literature, ancient heresy, and the politics of freethinking, 1660-1760 AV - PR445 .E45 2008eb U1 - 820.9/382 22 PY - 2008/// CY - Stanford, Calif. PB - Stanford University Press KW - English literature KW - 18th century KW - History and criticism KW - Early modern, 1500-1700 KW - Free thought in literature KW - Christianity and literature KW - England KW - History KW - 17th century KW - Free thought KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-227 ) and index; 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; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2013; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc?id=10313976 ER -