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The Fringes of Belief

Sarah Ellenzweig

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  • 256 sidor
  • 2008
The Fringes of Belief is the first literary study of freethinking and religious skepticism in the English Enlightenment. Ellenzweig aims to redress this scholarly lacuna, arguing that a literature of English freethinking has been overlooked because it unexpectedly supported aspects of institutional religion. Analyzing works by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, Aphra Behn, Jonathan Swift, and Alexander Pope, she foregrounds a strand of the English freethinking tradition that was suspicious of revealed religion yet often strongly opposed to the open denigration of Anglican Christianity and its laws. By exposing the contradictory and volatile status of categories like belief and doubt this book participates in the larger argument in Enlightenment studiesas well as in current scholarship on the condition of modernity more generally-that religion is not so simply left behind in the shift from the pre-modern to the modern world.
  • Författare: Sarah Ellenzweig
  • Illustratör: black & white illustrations
  • Format: Inbunden
  • ISBN: 9780804758772
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 256
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2008-09-25
  • Förlag: Stanford University Press