{"product_id":"national-reckonings-the-last-judgment-and-literature-in-miltons-england-hardback-9781501731075","title":"National Reckonings; The Last Judgment and Literature in Milton's England (Hardback) 9781501731075","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eNational Reckonings\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Last Judgment and Literature in Milton's England\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eRyan Hackenbracht (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781501731075\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 15 March 2019\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e234 pages, 13 b\u0026amp;w halftones - 13 Halftones, black and white\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.4 cm, 0.907 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNational Reckonings\u003c\/i\u003e is a valuable addition to scholarship on the early-modern understanding of Judgment Day... Hackenbracht's scholarship is solid and needs to be considered and discussed.\u003c\/p\u003e (Choice) \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNational Reckonings\u003c\/i\u003e succeeds in detailing the religious texture of early modern nationalism by offering a rich early modern social horizon, one in which ecclesia and the faithful remnant hold power alongside (often beyond) the emerging nation-state... \u003ci\u003eNational Reckonings\u003c\/i\u003e will certainly appeal to Miltonists and scholars of the English revolution looking for a sophisticated yet lucid explication of the biblical roots of early modern political thought.\u003c\/p\u003e (Renaissance Quarterly) \u003cp\u003eNational Reckonings offers a short, lucid, and provocative rereading of some key (and some unjustly neglected) texts of the tumultuous mid-seventeenth-century England. Hackenbracht's prose moves the reader easily and clearly among languages, authors, and genres. His command of Greek and Latin is impressive (he does his own translations of texts in both languages) and he renders the often-obscure prose of writers like Thomas Vaughan and Abiezer Coppe easily accessible in his paraphrases. This [is an] intriguing, thoughtful, and well-written book.\u003c\/p\u003e (Milton Quarterly) \u003cp\u003eWith fresh readings of canonical figures such as Milton and Hobbes, as well as lesser-known religious and literary figures, \u003ci\u003eNational Reckonings\u003c\/i\u003e provides a helpful resource for scholars of early modern religious and political thought.\u003c\/p\u003e (Sixteenth Century Journal)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDuring the tumultuous years of the English Revolution and Restoration, national crises like civil wars and the execution of the king convinced Englishmen that the end of the world was not only inevitable but imminent.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eNational Reckonings\u003c\/i\u003e shows how this widespread eschatological expectation shaped nationalist thinking in the seventeenth century. Imagining what Christ's return would mean for England's body politic, a wide range of poets, philosophers, and other writers—including Milton, Hobbes, Winstanley, and Thomas and Henry Vaughan,—used anticipation of the Last Judgment to both disrupt existing ideas of the nation and generate new ones. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRyan Hackenbracht contends that nationalism, consequently, was not merely a horizontal relationship between citizens and their sovereign but a vertical one that pitted the nation against the shortly expected kingdom of God. The Last Judgment was the site at which these two imagined communities, England and ecclesia (the universal church), would collide. Harnessing the imaginative space afforded by literature, writers measured the shortcomings of an imperfect and finite nation against the divine standard of a perfect and universal community. In writing the nation into end-times prophecies, such works as Paradise Lost and Leviathan offered contemporary readers an opportunity to participate in the cosmic drama of the world's end and experience reckoning while there was still time to alter its outcome.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52607775015192,"sku":"9781501731075","price":40.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/national-reckonings-the-last-judgment-and-literature-in-miltons-england-hardback-9781501731075","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}