商品簡介
Ellenzweig (English, Rice U., Texas) contends that in the English imagination it was possible to reject Christianity as divine truth while defending the necessary authority of the Anglican Church, and this rapprochement between religious skepticism and the interests of the Protestant establishment represents a crucial and untold dimension of the secularization of the West. She shares elements in the literature of English freethinking that convinced her of this, among them Rochester, Blount, and the faith of unbelief; Behn, Fontenelle, and the cheats of revealed religion; Swift's Tale of a Tub and the anthropology of religion; Swift, credulity, and the pious fraud; and Pope's Essay on Man and the afterlife of English freethinking. The study is revised from her Ph.D. dissertation at Rutgers University (no date noted). Annotation c2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Sarah Ellenzweig is Assistant Professor of English at Rice University.
