Milton and the rhetoric of zeal /
Kranidas, Thomas.
Pittsburgh Pa. : Duquesne University Press,
c2005.
"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
Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-244) and index.
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 -- "Sanctifi'd bitterness" : A modest confutation and An apology against a pamphlet -- Kerygmatic authority in The reason of church-government
"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
Milton, John, 1608-1674
Milton, John, 1608-1674
English language
Christianity and literature
Politics and literature
Christian literature, English
Radicalism
Puritans