English Literature, Ancient Heresy, and the Politics of Freethinking, 1660-1760
by
Sarah Ellenzweig
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 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...