TY - BOOK ID - 77877883 TI - The fringes of belief : English literature, ancient heresy, and the politics of freethinking, 1660-1760 PY - 2008 SN - 0804769796 9780804769792 0804758778 9780804758772 PB - Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, DB - UniCat KW - English literature KW - Free thought in literature. KW - Christianity and literature KW - Free thought KW - Freethought KW - Thought, Free KW - Agnosticism KW - Atheism KW - Rationalism KW - Secular humanism KW - Skepticism KW - Literature and Christianity KW - Literature KW - Christian literature KW - History and criticism. KW - History UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77877883 AB - 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, Swift and Pope. ER -