Theologies of language in English renaissance literature : reading Shakespeare, Donne, and Milton

Summary: Redescribing renaissance literature as a battleground of competing "theologies of language," Baumlin reads Shakespeare's Hamlet, Donne's Songs and Sonets, and Milton's "Lycidas" within a revisionist history of rhetoric: these works, Baumlin argues, mark stages in the Weberian Entzauberung or "disenchantment" of literature, as they move from the word-magic of medieval Catholicism to a puritan-reformed "rhetoric of.

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ISBN: 9781282134003
ISBN: 9780739169612
ISBN: 9780739169605
ISBN: 1282134000
ISBN: 0739169610
ISBN: 0739169602
Physical Description: 1 online resource
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Publisher: Lanham : Lexington Books, �2012.

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General Note:	CatMonthString:july.20 Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Prelude : on reading rhetorically -- Acknowledgments -- "Resistless eloquence" -- Hamlet's sorcery -- "Scourge" or "minister" -- The Donnean doubting-game -- Love's atheist : reading Donne's "Communitie" -- "The token" among Donne's songs and sonnets -- "Outward preaching" vs. "inward persuasion" -- The Protestant allegory of "Lycidas" -- Milton's "rhetoric of certitude" -- Postlude : from "enthusiasm" to enlightenment.
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Issuing Body Note:	Made available online by EBSCO.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.