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This learned, agile book tracks pivotal changes in views of conscience from Luther through Locke. Offering nuanced readings of works by Shakespeare, Donne, and Milton, Held demonstrates the emergence of the idea of the bold conscience as a site of political resistance and as the locus of a dawning toleration. -Michael Schoenfeldt, editor of John Donne in Context

This learned, agile book tracks pivotal changes in views of conscience from Luther through Locke. Offering nuanced readings of works by Shakespeare, Donne, and Milton, Held demonstrates the emergence of the idea of the bold conscience as a site of political resistance and as the locus of a dawning toleration. --Michael Schoenfeldt, editor of John Donne in Context

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Joshua R. Held is associate professor, chair of English, and director of the honors program at Trinity International University. His scholarship has appeared in Studies in Philology, Modern Philology, Milton Studies, and Shakespeare Survey.

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