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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462104503321

Autore

Hampton Bryan Adams

Titolo

Fleshly tabernacles [[electronic resource] ] : Milton and the incarnational poetics of revolutionary England / / Bryan Adams Hampton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Notre Dame, Ind., : University of Notre Dame Press, c2012

ISBN

0-268-15865-7

0-268-08174-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (386 p.)

Disciplina

821/.4

Soggetti

Christianity and literature - England - History - 17th century

Incarnation in literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I. Proclaiming the Word; Chapter 1. "Such harmony alone": The Incarnational Aesthetics of the 1645 Poems and the Proclamation of the Word; Chapter 2. Infernal Prophesying: Unsaying God's Name in the Demonic Council Scene of Paradise Lost; Part II. Milton's Incarnate Reader; Chapter 3. The Greatest Metaphor of Our Religion: The Radical Hermeneutics of Incarnation in Milton's De Doctrina Christiana

Chapter 4. Milton's Parable of Misreading: Discernment, Self-Government, and the Hermeneutics of the "night-founder'd Skiff" in Paradise Lost, 1.192-209Chapter 5. Fashioning the True Pilot: Temperance and Political Transcendence in Samson Agonistes and Paradise Regained; Part III. Revolutionary Incarnations and the Metaphysics of Abundance; Chapter 6. The Perfect Seed of Christ: Allegory and Incarnation in the Works of John Everard and Gerrard Winstanley; Chapter 7. Pageant and Anti-Pageant: James Nayler and the Divine Economy of Incarnation in the Quaker Theodrama; Epilogue; Notes; Index

About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

Proclaiming the Word -- Milton's incarnate reader -- Revolutionary incarnations and the metaphysics of abundance.