National Reckonings : The Last Judgment and Literature in Milton's England /

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"Shows how Milton, Hobbes, and other seventeenth-century English writers used expectation of the world's end to invent new and radical ideas of the nation"--

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Hackenbracht, Ryan (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2019
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Nationalism in literature.
Judgment Day in literature.
Eschatology in literature.
English literature > Early modern.
Christianity and politics.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Christianisme et politique > Angleterre > Histoire > 17e siecle.
Nationalisme dans la litterature.
Jugement dernier dans la litterature.
Christianity and politics > England > History > 17th century.
English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism.
England.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Milton and the faithful remnant : locating the nation in the early poetry
  • Postponing the Last Judgment : biblical sovereignty and political messianism in Hobbes's Leviathan
  • Turning swords into plowshares : Diggers, Ranters, and radical eschatologies of class revolution
  • The fire and the scythe : hermeticism, husbandry, and Welsh politics in the works of Thomas and Henry Vaughan
  • The trial of Charles I and the redemption of fallen community in Milton's Paradise lost

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