Introduction
PART I: COMMONWEALTH
1. 'Hireling wolves': Poetry, Prophecy and Republican Religion
PART II: RESTORATION
2. The Failure of Uniformity
3. 'Priests of all Religions are the same': Dryden and the Politics of Irreligion
PART III:
ENLIGHTENMENT
4. Whig Poetics and the Church in Danger
5. The Literature of Physico-Theology
6. Alexander Pope and the Modes of Faith
Coda: Pope, Milton, Modernity
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Philip Connell was educated at the University of Liverpool and completed his Ph.D. at King's College, Cambridge. He is currently a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of English and a Fellow of Selwyn College at the University of Cambridge. He has published widely on English literature and its
contexts between 1650 and 1840, with a particular emphasis upon interdisciplinary studies in the fields of poetry, politics, and intellectual history.