| Description |
x, 306 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Seventeenth-century texts and studies ; vol. 2 |
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Seventeenth-century texts and studies ; vol. 2
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| Contents |
Introduction / William P. Shaw -- Revolution, restoration, and literature / Christopher Hill -- "Had Zimri peace, who slew his master?" : the role of Jehu (2 Kings 9-10) in seventeenth-century religious and political literature / Laura Ballard Kennelly -- The house of love : rhetoric and salvation in the seventeenth century / Jean Dietz Moss -- Mothers in Israel : the Puritan rhetoric of childbearing / Margaret Olofson Thickstun -- Secular fall and redemption in Hobbes's Leviathan / Leo Rauch -- Macbeth and The tempest : the dark side of Prospero's magic / Richard S. Ide -- Ben Jonson's libertine Catholicism / T. Wilson Hayes -- John Donne and salvation through grace / George Klawitter -- Interpretive authority in Donne's Biathanatos / Meg Lota Brown -- Salvation and damnation in Divine meditations of John Donne / Barry Spurr -- "Impute this idle talke" : the l̀eaven' body of Donne's "Holy sonnet III" / M. Thomas Hester -- God's ape and Christ the all-heal : salvation and damnation in the vegetable world / Charlotte F. Otten -- Salvation under covenant : Herbert's poetry and Puritan sermons / Jeanne Clayton Hunter -- "Artillerie" : Herbert's strange warfare / Robert Thomas Fallon -- Semiotics of the sacrament in Edward Taylor's Preparatory meditations / Ivy Schweitzer -- Human and divine reconciliation in Paradise lost, X-XI : the strategy of Milton's structure / Cheryl H. Fresch -- The banqueting scene in Paradise regained : Milton's temptation to the anti-Puritan appetite / Alinda Sumers |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Christian literature, English -- History and criticism.
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Civilization, Modern -- 17th century.
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English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.
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Salvation in literature.
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| SUBJECT |
Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 17th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056854
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| Author |
Shaw, William P.
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| LC no. |
90019214 |
| ISBN |
0820414603 (alk. paper) |
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