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Inhalt: 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 examines the radically different responses of John Milton, Andrew Marvell, and Samuel Butler to the existential crises caused by this explosion of loyalty oaths. After early support, all three developed serious reservations, confronting the irony that while oaths often exclude and destroy, they also include and create. Tackling issues such as performance, ritual, religion, secularization, gender, swearing, republicanism, and citizenship, Garganigo offers original readings of Paradise Lost, Samson Agonistes, An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland, The Rehearsal Transpros'd, and Hudibras.

Anmerkung: 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 , In English.

Sprache: Englisch

DOI: 10.3138/9781487512200

URL: https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487512200

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ISBN: 9781487512200

Inhalt: 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 examines the radically different responses of John Milton, Andrew Marvell, and Samuel Butler to the existential crises caused by this explosion of loyalty oaths. After early support, all three developed serious reservations, confronting the irony that while oaths often exclude and destroy, they also include and create. Tackling issues such as performance, ritual, religion, secularization, gender, swearing, republicanism, and citizenship, Garganigo offers original readings of Paradise Lost, Samson Agonistes, An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland, The Rehearsal Transpros'd, and Hudibras.

Anmerkung: Includes bibliographical references and index

Weitere Ausg.: ISBN 9781487500986

Weitere Ausg.: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Garganigo, Alex, 1969 - Samson's cords Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2018 ISBN 9781487500986

Weitere Ausg.: ISBN 148750098X

Sprache: Englisch

Schlagwort(e): Butler, Samuel 1612-1680 ; Marvell, Andrew 1621-1678 ; Milton, John 1608-1674 ; Treueid ; Eid

DOI: 10.3138/9781487512200

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ISBN: 1-4875-1221-X , 1-4875-1220-1

Inhalt: "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 examines the radically different responses of John Milton, Andrew Marvell, and Samuel Butler to the existential crises caused by this explosion of loyalty oaths. After early support, all three developed serious reservations, confronting the irony that while oaths often exclude and destroy, they also include and create. Tackling issues such as performance, ritual, religion, secularization, gender, swearing, republicanism, and citizenship, Garganigo offers original readings of Paradise Lost, Samson Agonistes, An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland, The Rehearsal Transpros'd, and Hudibras."--

Anmerkung: 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. , Issued also in print. , In English.

Weitere Ausg.: ISBN 1-4875-0098-X

Sprache: Englisch

Schlagwort(e): Criticism, interpretation, etc.

DOI: 10.3138/9781487512200