{"product_id":"samsons-cords-imposing-oaths-in-milton-marvell-and-butler-hardback-9781487500986","title":"Samson's Cords; Imposing Oaths in Milton, Marvell, and Butler (Hardback) 9781487500986","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eSamson's Cords\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eImposing Oaths in Milton, Marvell, and Butler\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAlex Garganigo (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781487500986\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 2 May 2018\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e352 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 16.1 x 2.6 cm, 0.67 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\"\u003cem\u003eSamson\u0026amp;#x2019;s Cords\u003c\/em\u003e is a sophisticated, learned, and thoughtful book based on wide reading and deep thinking.\"\u003c\/p\u003e - Andrew Hadfield, University of Sussex (\u003cem\u003eModern Philology\u003c\/em\u003e) \u003cp\u003e\"Garganigo\u0026amp;#x2019;s work certainly increases our understanding of the literature of Milton, Marvell, and Butler, and for those who specialize in their study, \u003ci\u003eSamson\u0026amp;#x2019;s Cords\u003c\/i\u003e is well worth a read.\" \u003c\/p\u003e - Jonathan Michael Gray (\u003cem\u003eRenaissance Quarterly\u003c\/em\u003e) \u003cp\u003e\"The dialogic nature of \u003ci\u003eSamson\u0026amp;#x2019;s Cords\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e - Megan Matchinske, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (\u003cem\u003eUniversity of Toronto Quarterly: Letters in Canada 2018\u003c\/em\u003e)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn seventeenth-century Britain every debate about loyalty oaths invoked the biblical Samson. \u003ci\u003eSamson\u0026amp;#x2019;s Cords\u003c\/i\u003e argues that these loyalty tests became an unprecedentedly pervasive feature of life in Restoration England and that writers of satire and epic had no choice but to respond.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAlex Garganigo examines the radically different responses of John Milton, Andrew Marvell, and Samuel Butler to the existential crises caused by this explosion of loyalty oaths.  After early support, all three developed serious reservations\u003cb\u003e, \u003c\/b\u003econfronting the irony that while oaths often exclude and destroy, they also include and create. Tackling issues such as performance, ritual, religion, secularization, gender, swearing, republicanism, and citizenship,\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eGarganigo offers original readings of \u003ci\u003eParadise Lost\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSamson Agonistes\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAn Horatian Ode upon Cromwell\u0026amp;#x2019;s Return from Ireland\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Rehearsal Transpros\u0026amp;#x2019;d\u003c\/i\u003e, and\u003ci\u003e Hudibras\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. Samson\u0026amp;#x2019;s Cords in Restoration England\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Conjuring Oaths and Identities in Hudibras\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Testing the Tests in The Rehearsal Transpros\u0026amp;#x2019;d\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. An Horatian Oath: the Horatian Ode, Secularism, and Toleration\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Samson\u0026amp;#x2019;s Cords: Imposing Oaths in Eikonoklastes and Samson Agonistes\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Paradise Lost I: God\u0026amp;#x2019;s Swearing By Himself\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. Paradise Lost II: Of Apples, Oaths, and Women\u003c\/p\u003eA Proposal for Emending One of Marvell\u0026amp;#x2019;s Letters\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52595448840472,"sku":"9781487500986","price":50.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/samsons-cords-imposing-oaths-in-milton-marvell-and-butler-hardback-9781487500986","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}