Milton and the rhetoric of zeal /

"Describes a rhetoric of radical excess that developed among the Puritan wing of English Protestantism during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and from which Milton's radically aggressive style of prose emerged"--Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Kranidas, Thomas
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Pittsburgh : Duquesne University Press, [2005]
Subjects:	Milton, John, > 1608-1674 > Technique. Milton, John, > 1608-1674 > Prose. Puritans > England > Intellectual life. Radicalism > Great Britain > History > 17th century. Christian literature, English > History and criticism. Politics and literature > Great Britain > History > 17th century. Christianity and literature > England > History > 17th century. English language > Early modern, 1500-1700 > Rhetoric. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

The rhetoric of zeal
Of reformation : the politics of vision
Words, words, words and the Word : Of prelatical episcopacy
Style and rectitude : Hall, Smectymnuus, and Milton's Animadversions
"Sanctifi'd bitterness" : A modest confutation and An apology against a pamphlet
Kerygmatic authority in The reason of church-government.