TY - BOOK ID - 78436726 TI - Samson's cords PY - 2018 SN - 1487512201 9781487512200 9781487500986 148750098X 148751221X 9781487512217 PB - Toronto Buffalo London DB - UniCat KW - English literature KW - British literature KW - Inklings (Group of writers) KW - Nonsense Club (Group of writers) KW - Order of the Fancy (Group of writers) KW - History and criticism. KW - Milton, John, KW - Marvell, Andrew, KW - Butler, Samuel, KW - Mercurius Civicus, KW - Civicus, Mercurius, KW - Canne, J., KW - Unknown hand, KW - A. M. KW - M., A. KW - Marvel, Andrew, KW - Protestant, KW - Rivetus, Andreas, KW - Milṭan, Jān, KW - Milʹton, Dzhon, KW - Милтон, Джон, KW - Miltūn, Zhūn, KW - Miltonus, Joannes, KW - J. M. KW - M., J. KW - Milʹton, Īoann, KW - Milton, Gioanni, KW - Milton, Giovanni, KW - מילטאן, יאהאן KW - מילטאן, יוחנן KW - מילטון, ג׳והן KW - מלטן, יוחנן KW - Criticism and interpretation. KW - 1600-1699 UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78436726 AB - "In seventeenth-century Britain every debate about loyalty oaths invoked the biblical Samson. Samson's Cords 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. Alex 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, confronting 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, Garganigo offers original readings of Paradise Lost, Samson Agonistes, An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland, The Rehearsal Transpros'd, and Hudibras."-- ER -