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Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2008

1 online resource (xii, 240 p.)

ISBN 9780804758772 (cloth : alk. paper)

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. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries

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