Theologies of language in English Renaissance literature [electronic resource] : reading Shakespeare, Donne, and Milton / James S. Baumlin.
Publication details: Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, c2012.Description: 1 online resource (liv, 259 p.) : illISBN:- 9780739169612 (electronic bk.)
- 0739169610 (electronic bk.)
- English language -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- Rhetoric
- English language -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- Style
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Hamlet
- Donne, John, 1572-1631. Songs and sonets
- Milton, John, 1608-1674. Lycidas
- Religion in literature
- LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- 820.9/003 23
- PE1083 .B38 2012eb
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Prelude : on reading rhetorically -- Acknowledgments -- "Resistless eloquence" -- Hamlet's sorcery -- "Scourge" or "minister" -- The Donnean doubting-game -- Love's atheist : reading Donne's "Communitie" -- "The token" among Donne's songs and sonnets -- "Outward preaching" vs. "inward persuasion" -- The Protestant allegory of "Lycidas" -- Milton's "rhetoric of certitude" -- Postlude : from "enthusiasm" to enlightenment.
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