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Godless Fictions in the Eighteenth Century - A Literary History of Atheism (Hardcover)
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Godless Fictions in the Eighteenth Century - A Literary History of Atheism (Hardcover)
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Although there were no self-avowed British atheists before the
1780s, authors including Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, Sarah
Fielding, Phebe Gibbes, and William Cowper worried extensively
about atheism's dystopian possibilities, and routinely represented
atheists as being beyond the pale of human sympathy. Challenging
traditional formulations of secularization that equate modernity
with unbelief, Reeves reveals how reactions against atheism rather
helped sustain various forms of religious belief throughout the Age
of Enlightenment. He demonstrates that hostility to unbelief
likewise produced various forms of religious ecumenicalism, with
authors depicting non-Christian theists from around Britain's
emerging empire as sympathetic allies in the fight against
irreligion. Godless Fictions in the Eighteenth Century traces a
literary history of atheism in eighteenth-century Britain for the
first time, revealing a relationship between atheism and
secularization far more fraught than has previously been supposed.
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