Baumlin, James S.

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.

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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Hamlet.
Donne, John, 1572-1631. Songs and sonets.
Milton, John, 1608-1674. Lycidas.


English language--Rhetoric.--Early modern, 1500-1700
English language--Style.--Early modern, 1500-1700
Religion in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh


Electronic books.

PE1083 / .B38 2012eb

820.9/003