Theologies of Language in English Renaissance Literature

Reading Shakespeare, Donne, and Milton

Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, British
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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.

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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.

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