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Holy Ambition: Rhetoric, Courtship, and Devotion in the Sermons of John Donne.(Book review)

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From: Journal of Church and State
Date: 20060101
Author:Harris, Mitchell M.

Holy Ambition: Rhetoric, Courtship, and Devotion in the Sermons of John Donne. By Brent Nelson. Tempe, Ariz.: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2005. 306 pp. $38.00.

In Holy Ambition: Rhetoric, Courtship, and Devotion in the Sermons of John Donne, Brent Nelson turns his critical gaze from cultural studies to rhetoric. After quickly demonstrating the often contradictory and conflicting nature of some recent cultural readings of the sermons in the introduction, Nelson suggests that "[w]e are on much safer ground, indeed more fertile ground, when we look for ...

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