Milton in the Age of Fish

by Lieb, Michael; Labriola, Albert C.

• ISBN13: 9780820703848
• ISBN10: 0820703842
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-01-30
• Publisher: Pennsylvania State Univ Pr

Author Biography

Lyn Bennett is an instructor at the University of Toronto

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction: Women Writing of Divinest Things	p. 1
Rhetoric and Devotion in Pembroke's Psalmes	p. 33
The Politics of Prayer	p. 39
Private Rhetoric and Public Oratory	p. 47
Bringing God Before Our Eyes	p. 69
Devotional Decorum	p. 85
Sacred and Secular in Wroth's "A crowne of Sonetts"	p. 103
The Rhetorical Sonnet	p. 111
Reading in Circles	p. 123
Figuring the Sacred and the Secular	p. 129
Crowns of Devotion	p. 153
Persuasion and Praise in Lanyer's Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum	p. 165
Proving Women's Worth	p. 177
Disciplines and Species	p. 197
Decorum and Persuasion	p. 209
The Art That Denies Art	p. 229
Conclusion	p. 247
Notes	p. 257
Index	p. 323
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