Skip to content

Milton and the rhetoric of zeal

by Thomas Kranidas

Cover of Milton and the rhetoric of zeal

"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.

Christianity and literatureEnglish Christian literatureEnglish languageHistoryHistory and criticismIntellectual lifePolitics and literatureProsePuritansRadicalismRhetoricTechnique