Samson's Cords : : Imposing Oaths in Milton, Marvell, and Butler /

Samson's Cords : : Imposing Oaths in Milton, Marvell, and Butler / / Alex Garganigo.

In seventeenth-century Britain every debate about loyalty oaths invoked the biblical Samson. Samson's Cords argues that these loyalty tests became an unprecedentedly pervasive feature of life in Restoration England and that writers of satire and epic had no choice but to respond. Alex Garganigo...

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Garganigo, Alex,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]
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Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (352 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Samson's Cords in Restoration England
  • 1. Conjuring Oaths and Identities in Hudibras
  • 2. Testing the Tests in The Rehearsal Transpros'd
  • 3. An Horatian Oath: The Horatian Ode, Secularism, and Toleration
  • 4. Samson's Cords: Imposing Oaths in Eikonoklastes and Samson Agonistes
  • 5. Paradise Lost I: God's Swearing by Himself: Milton's Troubling Coronation Oath
  • 6. Paradise Lost II: Of Apples, Oaths, and Women
  • Appendix: A Proposal for Emending One of Marvell's Letters
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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