Theologies of language in English renaissance literature
Subtitle: reading Shakespeare, Donne, and Milton
By: James S. Baumlin
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Lanham
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780739169605; 9780739169612
Subjects: Literary style; Rhetoric; Renaissance Rhetoric; Language; Theology in literature; Style; English language
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prelude : on reading rhetorically; title: Acknowledgments; title: "Resistless eloquence"; title: Hamlet's sorcery; title: "Scourge" or "minister"; title: The Donnean doubting-game; title: Love's atheist : reading Donne's "Communitie"; title: "The token" among Donne's songs and sonnets; title: "Outward preaching" vs. "inward persuasion"; title: The Protestant allegory of "Lycidas"; title: Milton's "rhetoric of certitude"; title: Postlude : from "enthusiasm" to enlightenment.