{"product_id":"the-fringes-of-belief-english-literature-ancient-heresy-and-the-politics-of-freethinking-1660-1760-hardcover","title":"The Fringes of Belief: English Literature, Ancient Heresy, and the Politics of Freethinking, 1660-1760 - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSarah Ellenzweig\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Fringes of Belief\u003c\/i\u003e 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 studies--as 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eSarah Ellenzweig is Assistant Professor of English at Rice University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 9 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 25, 2008\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47475536265394,"sku":"9780804758772","price":128.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/420c7dbe21ff4bf5f74e937964821839.webp?v=1779170036","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/the-fringes-of-belief-english-literature-ancient-heresy-and-the-politics-of-freethinking-1660-1760-hardcover","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}