Alex Garganigo: 1 book
Samson’s Cords
Imposing Oaths in Milton, Marvell, and Butler
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018
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.
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