National reckonings the Last Judgment and literature in Milton's England

National reckonings : the Last Judgment and literature in Milton's England / Ryan Hackenbracht.

Author/creator	Hackenbracht, Ryan
Format	Electronic and Book
Publication Info	Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2019.
Description	xviii, 213 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Supplemental Content	Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subject(s)	English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700 --History and criticism. Judgment Day in literature. Eschatology in literature. Nationalism in literature. Christianity and politics--England --History --17th century.

Contents	Milton and the faithful remnant : locating the nation in the early poetry -- Postponing the Last Judgment : biblical sovereignty and political messianism in Hobbes's Leviathan -- Turning swords into plowshares : Diggers, Ranters, and radical eschatologies of class revolution -- The fire and the scythe : hermeticism, husbandry, and Welsh politics in the works of Thomas and Henry Vaughan -- The trial of Charles I and the redemption of fallen community in Milton's Paradise lost.
Abstract	"Shows how Milton, Hobbes, and other seventeenth-century English writers used expectation of the world's end to invent new and radical ideas of the nation"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-202) and index.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2018034212
ISBN	9781501731075 (hardcover)
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