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Review Of The Literary Culture Of The Reformation: Grammar And Grace / Liturgy And Literature In The Making Of Protestant England By Brian Cummings And Timothy Rosendale, Brooke Conti
English Faculty Publications
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Beyond Sacrifice: Milton And The Atonement, Gregory Chaplin
Beyond Sacrifice: Milton And The Atonement, Gregory Chaplin
English Faculty Publications
In Paradise Lost, Milton imagines a cosmos at odds with orthodox theology, making a heretical departure that parallels his reluctance to dwell on the Crucifixion and his Arian Christology. Belief in a plurality of worlds threatens the integrity of the Trinity: it exalts the omnipotence of the creator, while it limits the significance of the redeemer. In effect, it produces a tension best resolved by Milton’s position that the Father and the Son are two distinct beings—the former uncreated, infinite, and immutable and the latter created, finite, and changeable. This distinction enables Milton to fashion a theory of salvation …
Review Of The Voice Of The Hammer: The Meaning Of Work In Middle English Literature, Gregory M. Sadlek
Review Of The Voice Of The Hammer: The Meaning Of Work In Middle English Literature, Gregory M. Sadlek
English Faculty Publications
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John Cleave's Weekly Police Gazette (1834-6), Francis Place, And The Pragmatics Of The Unstamped Press, Edward Jacobs
John Cleave's Weekly Police Gazette (1834-6), Francis Place, And The Pragmatics Of The Unstamped Press, Edward Jacobs
English Faculty Publications
John Cleave (c.1790-c.1847) was the editor and publisher of, among other works, Cleaves Weekly Police Gazette (1834-6; hereafter WPG), which was by most accounts the best-selling unstamped newspaper of the so-called "War of the Unstamped Press" in the 1830s, one of the first unstamped papers to adopt a broadsheet format like stamped papers, and one of the first to mix political news with coverage of non-political events like sensational crimes and strange occurrences. As Joel Wiener and Patricia Hollis note, less is known about Cleave than about most of the other major figures in the unstamped movement, like William Carpenter, …