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During 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. National Reckonings 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. Ryan 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.

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Inglaterra

Reino Unido

History of ideas

United Kingdom

Nationalism

English

Christianity

Great Britain

England

Anglais

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Publié par	Cornell University Press
Date de parution	15 mars 2019
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781501731082
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	5 Mo

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National Reckonings

NationalReckonings

TheLastJudgmentandLiteraturein Milton’s England

RyanHackenbracht

CornellUniversityPressIthaca and London

Copyright©2019byCornellUniversityAllrightsreserved.Exceptforbriefquotationsinareview,thisbook,orparts thereof, must not be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher. For information, address Cornell University Press, Sage House, 512 East State Street, Ithaca, New York 14850. Visit our website at cornellpress.cornell.edu. Firstpublished2019byCornellUniversityPressPrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmericaLibraryofCongressCataloginginPublicationData

Names:Hackenbracht,Ryan,author. Title: National reckonings : the Last Judgment and literature in Milton’s England / Ryan Hackenbracht. Description: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2019. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identiﬁers: LCCN 2018034212 (print) | LCCN 2018047137 (ebook) | ISBN 9781501731082 (pdf) | ISBN 9781501731099 (ret) | ISBN 9781501731075 | ISBN 9781501731075 (cloth ; alk. paper) Subjects: LCSH: English literature—Early modern, 1500–1700—History and criticism. | Judgment Day in literature. | Eschatology in literature. | Nationalism in literature. | Christianity and politics—England— History—17th century. Classiﬁcation: LCC PR438.J83 (ebook) | LCC PR438.J83 H33 2019 (print) | DDC 820.9/3581—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018034212

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