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The rhetoric of the conscience in Donne, Herbert and Vaughan / Ceri Sullivan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sullivan, Ceri, 1963-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Donne, John, 1572-1631--Criticism and interpretation.
- Donne, John.
- Herbert, George, 1593-1633--Criticism and interpretation.
- Herbert, George.
- Vaughan, Henry, 1621-1695--Criticism and interpretation.
- Vaughan, Henry.
- English poetry--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.
- English poetry.
- Conscience in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (296 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- There is a kind of conscience some men keepe,Is like a Member that's benumb'd with sleepe;Which, as it gathers Blood, and wakes agen,It shoots, and pricks, and feeles as bigg as tenDonne, Herbert, and Vaughan see the conscience as only partly theirs, only partly under their control. Of course, as theologians said, it ought to be a simple syllogism, comparing actions to God's law, and giving judgement, in a joint procedure of the soul and its maker. Inevitably, though, there are problems. Hearts refuse to confess, or forget the rules, or jumble them up, or refuse to come to the point when deliv
- Contents:
- Contents; Illustrations; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. The Conscience as a Syllogism; 2. Torturing the Conscience with Divine subjectio; 3. Godly Graffiti, or, the Enigma of the Conscience; 4. Bumptious Reading and Priggish antanaclasis; 5. Peevish Weariness, aposiopesis, and the Irresolute Conscience; 6. Eyes, Tears, Eyes, and the Penitential chiasmus; Conclusion: The Engineered Conscience; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W; Y; Z
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [234]-267) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9786611852399
- 0-19-156328-5
- 1-281-85239-2
- OCLC:
- 318675725
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