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.

• List of Illustrations Abbreviations Note on the Text 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 Bibliography Index

a brilliant intervention into early eighteenth-century studies

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.

• List of Illustrations Abbreviations Note on the Text 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 Bibliography Index

a brilliant intervention into early eighteenth-century studies

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.

• List of Illustrations Abbreviations Note on the Text 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 Bibliography Index

a brilliant intervention into early eighteenth-century studies