Milton and the Rhetoric of Zeal /

"Describes a rhetoric of radical excess that developed among the Puritan wing of English Protestantism during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and from which Milton's radically aggressive style of prose emerged"--Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Kranidas, Thomas
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Pittsburgh : Duquesne University Press, 2005.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Milton, John, > 1608-1674 > Technique.
Milton, John, > 1608-1674 > Prose.
Puritans > England > Intellectual life.
Radicalism > Great Britain > History > 17th century.
Christian literature, English > History and criticism.
Politics and literature > Great Britain > History > 17th century.
Christianity and literature > England > History > 17th century.
English language > Early modern, 1500-1700 > Rhetoric.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The rhetoric of zeal
  • Of reformation : the politics of vision
  • Words, words, words and the Word : Of prelatical episcopacy
  • Style and rectitude : Hall, Smectymnuus, and Milton's Animadversions
  • "Sanctifi'd bitterness" : A modest confutation and An apology against a pamphlet
  • Kerygmatic authority in The reason of church-government.

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