{"product_id":"samsons-cords-imposing-oaths-in-milton-marvell-and-butler-9781487500986","title":"Samsons Cords  Imposing Oaths in Milton Marvell","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSamson’s Cords examines the radically different responses of John Milton, Andrew Marvell, and Samuel Butler to the existential crises caused by an explosion of loyalty oaths in Britain before and after 1660.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Samson’s Cords is a sophisticated, learned, and thoughtful book based on wide reading and deep thinking.\" -- Andrew Hadfield, University of Sussex * \u003cem\u003eModern Philology\u003c\/em\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"Garganigo’s work certainly increases our understanding of the literature of Milton, Marvell, and Butler, and for those who specialize in their study, Samson’s Cords is well worth a read.\" -- Jonathan Michael Gray * \u003cem\u003eRenaissance Quarterly\u003c\/em\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"The dialogic nature of Samson’s Cords will make it the go-to book for people interested in any and all issues surrounding the oath: perjury, censorship, cursing, equivocation, casuistry, office, loyalty, promise, and ethics. There is much here as well for early modernists working on Butler, Marvell, and Milton, as Garganigo provides new, innovative, and restorative readings of all three, reminding readers how important literary poetics continues to be within the ethically focused historical scholarship of the last several years.\" -- Megan Matchinske, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill * \u003cem\u003eUniversity of Toronto Quarterly: Letters in Canada 2018\u003c\/em\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. Samson’s Cords in Restoration England   2. Conjuring Oaths and Identities in Hudibras   3. Testing the Tests in The Rehearsal Transpros’d   4. An Horatian Oath: the Horatian Ode, Secularism, and Toleration   5. Samson’s Cords: Imposing Oaths in Eikonoklastes and Samson Agonistes   6. Paradise Lost I: God’s Swearing By Himself   7. Paradise Lost II: Of Apples, Oaths, and Women  A Proposal for Emending One of Marvell’s Letters","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48739686908247,"sku":"9781487500986","price":56.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781487500986.jpg?v=1720052900","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/samsons-cords-imposing-oaths-in-milton-marvell-and-butler-9781487500986","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}