National Reckonings : : The Last Judgment and Literature in Milton's England /

National Reckonings : : The Last Judgment and Literature in Milton's England / / Ryan Hackenbracht.

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During 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 na...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
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Hackenbracht, Ryan,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]
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Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (234 p.) :; 13 b&w halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • A Note on Spelling, References, Abbreviations, and Translations
  • Introduction
  • 1. Milton and the Faithful Remnant: Locating the Nation in the Early Poetry
  • 2. Postponing the Last Judgment: Biblical Sovereignty and Political Messianism in Hobbes's Leviathan
  • 3. Turning Swords into Plowshares: Diggers, Ranters, and Radical Eschatologies of Class Revolution
  • 4. The Fire and the Scythe: Hermeticism, Husbandry, and Welsh Politics in the Works of Thomas and Henry Vaughan
  • 5. The Trial of Charles I and the Redemption of Fallen Community in Milton's Paradise Lost
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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