Milton and the rhetoric of zeal
By: Thomas Kranidas.
Series: Medieval and Renaissance literary studies
Publisher: Duquesne University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Pittsburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
Subjects: 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.
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-244) and index.
Table of contents: title: The rhetoric of zeal; title: Of reformation : the politics of vision; title: Words, words, words and the Word : Of prelatical episcopacy; title: Style and rectitude : Hall, Smectymnuus, and Milton's Animadversions; title: "Sanctifi'd bitterness" : A modest confutation and An apology against a pamphlet; title: Kerygmatic authority in The reason of church-government.