LEADER 03784nam 2200577 450 001 9910820809003321 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. 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