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The Casuistical Tradition in Shakespeare, Donne, Herbert, and Milton
By (Author) Camille Wells Slights
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
30th May 2017
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800
Literary studies: poetry and poets
822.33
Paperback
308
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
454g
To show how the casuistical tradition illuminates the study of major literary works in the English Renaissance, Camille Slights traces the emergence of casuistry in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and discusses its influence on the moral imaginations of Shakespeare, Donne, Herbert, and Milton. Originally published in 1981. The Princeton L