Fleshly tabernacles : Milton and the incarnational poetics of revolutionary England / Bryan Adams Hampton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hampton, Bryan Adams.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christianity and literature--England--History--17th century.

Christianity and literature.

Incarnation in literature.

Milton, John, 1608-1674--Criticism and interpretation.

Milton, John.

Milton, John, 1608-1674--Religion.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (386 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Proclaiming the Word -- Milton's incarnate reader -- Revolutionary incarnations and the metaphysics of abundance.

Contents:

Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I. Proclaiming the Word; Chapter 1. "Such harmony alone": The Incarnational Aesthetics of the 1645 Poems and the Proclamation of the Word; Chapter 2. Infernal Prophesying: Unsaying God's Name in the Demonic Council Scene of Paradise Lost; Part II. Milton's Incarnate Reader; Chapter 3. The Greatest Metaphor of Our Religion: The Radical Hermeneutics of Incarnation in Milton's De Doctrina Christiana

Chapter 4. Milton's Parable of Misreading: Discernment, Self-Government, and the Hermeneutics of the "night-founder'd Skiff" in Paradise Lost, 1.192-209Chapter 5. Fashioning the True Pilot: Temperance and Political Transcendence in Samson Agonistes and Paradise Regained; Part III. Revolutionary Incarnations and the Metaphysics of Abundance; Chapter 6. The Perfect Seed of Christ: Allegory and Incarnation in the Works of John Everard and Gerrard Winstanley; Chapter 7. Pageant and Anti-Pageant: James Nayler and the Divine Economy of Incarnation in the Quaker Theodrama; Epilogue; Notes; Index

About the Author

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780268158651

0268158657

9780268081744

0268081743

OCLC:

818733968