Godless fictions in the eighteenth century : a literary history of atheism /

"Godless Fictions traces a literary history of atheism in eighteenth-century Britain, illustrating the paradoxical ways in which atheism's presence in the period's literature was meant to prevent its presence in the real world. To demonstrate atheism's centrality in the period, I...

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Main Author: Reeves, James (James Bryant) (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020.
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Table of Contents:
  • An age of atheism
  • A complete system of atheism: Jonathan Swift
  • Godless dunces: Alexander Pope
  • The limits of self: Sarah Fielding
  • Gender and the Orient: Phebe Gibbes
  • Ecumenical poetics: William Cowper
  • Sympathy and unbelief: Percy Shelley.