Milton and the rhetoric of zeal

By Thomas Kranidas

Subjects: English Christian literature, Intellectual life, Politics and literature, Radicalism, Puritans, Prose, Rhetoric, English language, History and criticism, History, Technique, Christianity and literature

Description: "Describes a rhetoric of radical excess that developed among the Puritan wing of English Protestantism during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and from which Milton's radically agressive style of prose emerged"--Provided by publisher.