The Fringes of Belief: English Literature, Ancient Heresy, and the Politics of Freethinking, 1660-1760 . Sarah Ellenzweig

The Fringes of Belief: English Literature, Ancient Heresy, and the Politics of Freethinking, 1660-1760



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Publisher: Stanford University Press
Language: English
Page: 255
ISBN: 0804758778, 9780804758772

"At a moment of intense debate over the nature of the Enlightenment, Sarah Ellenzweig's The Fringes of Belief comes as an added reminder of just how complex and contrapuntal intellectual history can be . . . [T]his engaging study will be of interest to literary scholars, historians, and scholars of the Enlightenment more generally."—Kenneth Sheppard, Histoire sociale / Social History

"The Fringes of Belief is one of those all-too-rare books that makes a sharp, original, and provocative argument in a clear and engaging way. Expressing dissatisfaction with the secularization narrative has become commonplace. But it is much harder to come up with alternatives—let alone a subtle, profoundly revisionist one like Ellenzweig's."—Dror Wahrman, Indiana University

"In The Fringes of Belief, Sarah Ellenzweig excavates a fascinating but generally overlooked intellectual tradition that combined political conservatism with radical skepticism. Challenging traditional categories with cogent insight, perceptive reading, and revised versions of intellectual history, Ellenzweig offers fresh and complex appreciations of Aphra Behn, the Earl of Rochester, Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, and others."—Laura Rosenthal, University of Maryland

"The sophisticated, learned, and self-consciously literary world of eighteenth-century religious controversy certainly included an intense engagement with the past and a familiarity with heterodox beliefs. By addressing these issues, Ms. Ellenzweig opens Sarah Ellenzweig is Assistant Professor of English at Rice University.

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