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BL
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702022
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b524211
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| Main Entry
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Ellenzweig, Sarah
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| Title & Author
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The fringes of belief : : English literature, ancient heresy, and the politics of freethinking, 1660-1760 /\ Sarah Ellenzweig
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| Publication Statement
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Stanford, Calif. :: Stanford University Press,, c2008
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xii, 240 p. ;; 24 cm
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| ISBN
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0804758778 (cloth : alk. paper)
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: 9780804758772 (cloth : alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-227) and index
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| Contents
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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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Christianity and literature-- England-- History-- 17th century
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Christianity and literature-- England-- History-- 18th century
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English literature-- 18th century-- History and criticism
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English literature-- Early modern, 1500-1700-- History and criticism
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Free thought in literature
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Free thought-- England-- History-- 17th century
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Free thought-- England-- History-- 18th century
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| Dewey Classification
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820.9/382
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| LC Classification
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PR445.E45 2008
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