LEADER 03818nam 2200589 450 001 9910467460203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-5017-3108-4 024 7 $a10.7591/9781501731082 035 $a(CKB)4100000007655024 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5710012 035 $a(OCoLC)1056201512 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse73443 035 $a(DE-B1597)503483 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781501731082 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5710012 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11655839 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000007655024 100 $a20190304d2019 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aNational reckonings $ethe Last Judgment and literature in Milton's England /$fRyan Hackenbracht 210 1$aIthaca ;$aLondon :$cCornell University Press,$d2019. 215 $a1 online resource (234 pages) 311 $a1-5017-3109-2 311 $a1-5017-3107-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aMilton and the faithful remnant : locating the nation in the early poetry -- Postponing the Last Judgment : biblical sovereignty and political messianism in Hobbes's Leviathan -- Turning swords into plowshares : Diggers, Ranters, and radical eschatologies of class revolution -- The fire and the scythe : hermeticism, husbandry, and Welsh politics in the works of Thomas and Henry Vaughan -- The trial of Charles I and the redemption of fallen community in Milton's Paradise lost. 330 $aDuring the tumultuous years of the English Revolution and Restoration, national crises like civil wars and the execution of the king convinced Englishmen that the end of the world was not only inevitable but imminent. National Reckonings shows how this widespread eschatological expectation shaped nationalist thinking in the seventeenth century. Imagining what Christ's return would mean for England's body politic, a wide range of poets, philosophers, and other writers-including Milton, Hobbes, Winstanley, and Thomas and Henry Vaughan,-used anticipation of the Last Judgment to both disrupt existing ideas of the nation and generate new ones. Ryan Hackenbracht contends that nationalism, consequently, was not merely a horizontal relationship between citizens and their sovereign but a vertical one that pitted the nation against the shortly expected kingdom of God. The Last Judgment was the site at which these two imagined communities, England and ecclesia (the universal church), would collide. Harnessing the imaginative space afforded by literature, writers measured the shortcomings of an imperfect and finite nation against the divine standard of a perfect and universal community. In writing the nation into end-times prophecies, such works as Paradise Lost and Leviathan offered contemporary readers an opportunity to participate in the cosmic drama of the world's end and experience reckoning while there was still time to alter its outcome. 606 $aEnglish literature$yEarly modern, 1500-1700$xHistory and criticism 606 $aJudgment Day in literature 606 $aEschatology in literature 606 $aNationalism in literature 606 $aChristianity and politics$zEngland$xHistory$y17th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aJudgment Day in literature. 615 0$aEschatology in literature. 615 0$aNationalism in literature. 615 0$aChristianity and politics$xHistory 676 $a820.9/3581 700 $aHackenbracht$b Ryan$01045213 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910467460203321 996 $aNational reckonings$92471303 997 $aUNINA