Theologies of language in English Renaissance literature reading Shakespeare, Donne, and Milton / [electronic resource] :
James S. Baumlin.
- Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, c2012.
- 1 online resource (liv, 259 p.) : ill.
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.
English language--Rhetoric.--Early modern, 1500-1700 English language--Style.--Early modern, 1500-1700 Religion in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh