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02148aam a22003138i 4500 001 8BA703B2961911E8A89F3E0097128E48 003 SILO 005 20180802010035 008 171027s2017 onc b 001 0 eng 020 $a 148750098X 020 $a 9781487500986 035 $a (OCoLC)1035219146 040 $a NLC $b eng $e rda $c NLC $d OCLCO $d MBB $d OCLCF $d HTM $d IWA $d SILO 050 4 $a PR431 G37x 2018 100 1 $a Garganigo, Alex, $d 1969-, $e author. 245 10 $a Samson's cords : $b imposing oaths in Milton, Marvell, and Butler / $c Alex Garganigo. 264 1 $a Toronto ; $b University of Toronto Press, $c 2017. 300 $a xviii, 332 pages ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a "In seventeenth-century Britain every debate about loyalty oaths invoked the biblical Samson. Samson's Cords argues that these loyalty tests became an unprecedentedly pervasive feature of life in Restoration England and that writers of satire and epic had no choice but to respond. Alex Garganigo examines the radically different responses of John Milton, Andrew Marvell, and Samuel Butler to the existential crises caused by this explosion of loyalty oaths. After early support, all three developed serious reservations, confronting the irony that while oaths often exclude and destroy, they also include and create. Tackling issues such as performance, ritual, religion, secularization, gender, swearing, republicanism, and citizenship, Garganigo offers original readings of Paradise Lost, Samson Agonistes, An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland, The Rehearsal Transpros'd, and Hudibras."-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Milton, John, $d 1608-1674 $x Criticism and interpretation. 600 10 $a Marvell, Andrew, $d 1621-1678 $x Criticism and interpretation. 600 10 $a Butler, Samuel, $d 1612-1680 $x Criticism and interpretation. 650 0 $a English literature $y 17th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Oaths in literature. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20190103014959.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=8BA703B2961911E8A89F3E0097128E48 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search