Samson's Cords
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 exist...
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 exist...
