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The Intellectual and Imaginative Concept of the Angels in Certain Works of John Donne
<p>Even a cursory reading of seventeenth century literature reveals the strong religious tone of much of the writing. One recalls Herbert, Vaughan, Traherne or Crashaw, Milton, Thomas Heywood, Jeremy Taylor and Launcelot Andrews, among others. Among these writers John Donne stands in a most …
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The development of British military professionalism through early-modern European warfare (c.1572-1637) viewed through soldiers' published literature
This thesis analyses the late sixteenth-century and early seventeenth-century literature of warfare through the printed works of English, Welsh and Scots soldiers. The introduction analyses the relationship between modern historiography and the early-modern published works. The first chapter …
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Rhetoric, education, and the affections in seventeenth-century biblical epic.
This dissertation shows how three seventeenth-century biblical epics— Abraham Cowley's Davideis, John Milton's Paradise Regained, and Lucy Hutchinson's Order and Disorder—use rhetorical praise and blame for the moral and spiritual formation of their readers. In my study of these authors' biblical …
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Milton and romance: vernacular romance and chivalric traditions in Paradise Lost
The thesis examines Milton's strategic use of romance in Paradise Lost, arguing that such a handling of romance is a provocative realignment of its values according to the poet’s Christian focus. The thesis argues that Milton's use of romance is not simply the importation of a tradition into the …