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Author:

Kranidas, Thomas.

Title:

Milton and the rhetoric of zeal / Thomas Kranidas.

Publisher:

Duquesne University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2005

Description:

xvi, 255 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Milton, John,--1608-1674--Prose.
Milton, John,--1608-1674--Technique.
English language--Early modern, 1500-1700--Rhetoric.
Christianity and literature--England--History--17th century.
Politics and literature--Great Britain--History--17th century.
Christian literature, English--History and criticism.
Radicalism--Great Britain--History--17th century.
Puritans--England--Intellectual life.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-244) and index.

Contents:

The rhetoric of zeal -- Of reformation : the politics of vision -- Words, words, words and the Word : Of prelatical episcopacy -- Style and rectitude : Hall, Smectymnuus and Milton's Animadversions -- "Santifi'd bitterness" : A modest confutation and An apology against a pamphlet -- Kerygmatic authority in The reason of church-government.

Summary:

"Describes a rhetoric of radical excess that developed among the Puritan wing of English Protestantism during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and from which Milton's radically agressive style of prose emerged"--Provided by publisher.

Series:

Medieval and Renaissance literary studies

ISBN:

9780820703862
0820703869 (alk. paper)
9780820703619
0820703613 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)56752315

LCCN:

2004023895

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)