Theologies of Language in English Renaissance Literature
Reading Shakespeare, Donne, and Milton
Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, British
| Author: | James S. Baumlin | ISBN: | 9780739169612 |
| Publisher: | Lexington Books | Publication: | May 30, 2012 |
| Imprint: | Lexington Books | Language: | English |
| Author: | James S. Baumlin |
| ISBN: | 9780739169612 |
| Publisher: | Lexington Books |
| Publication: | May 30, 2012 |
| Imprint: | Lexington Books |
| Language: | English |
Redescribing renaissance literature as a battleground of competing “theologies of language,” Baumlin reads Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Donne’s Songs and Sonets, and Milton’s “Lycidas” within a revisionist history of rhetoric: these works, Baumlin argues, mark stages in the Weberian Entzauberung or “disenchantment” of literature, as they move from the word-magic of medieval Catholicism to a puritan-reformed “rhetoric of certitude.” Historians of rhetoric, of Reformation theology, and of renaissance literature will find this a carefully-argued, controversial, ground-breaking study.
Redescribing renaissance literature as a battleground of competing “theologies of language,” Baumlin reads Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Donne’s Songs and Sonets, and Milton’s “Lycidas” within a revisionist history of rhetoric: these works, Baumlin argues, mark stages in the Weberian Entzauberung or “disenchantment” of literature, as they move from the word-magic of medieval Catholicism to a puritan-reformed “rhetoric of certitude.” Historians of rhetoric, of Reformation theology, and of renaissance literature will find this a carefully-argued, controversial, ground-breaking study.
