National Reckonings: The Last Judgment and Literature in Milton's England. Ryan Hackenbracht. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2019. xx + 214 pp. $49.95.
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DOI: 10.1017/rqx.2019.605
Abstract: that of God rather than vice versa; for him, this surrender means not defeat but peace and action” (141). At the midpoint of the book, we shift from playwrights to poets. The matters of genre… read more here.
Keywords: milton; last judgment; reckonings last; literature milton ... See more keywords
Staging the Last Judgment in the Trial of Charles I
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DOI: 10.1525/rep.2018.143.1.1
Abstract: The trial of Charles I (said mid-seventeenth-century radical Protestants) was “a Resemblance and Representation of the great day of Judgement.” Situating the trial in its theological and iconographic context, viewing it as an expression of… read more here.
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