Author: Joseph Milton French
Publisher:
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Category : Mercurius Politicus
Languages : en
Pages : 22
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Milton, Needham, and Mercurius Politicus
Author: Joseph Milton French
Publisher:
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Category : Mercurius Politicus
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Mercurius Politicus
Languages : en
Pages : 22
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The Life of John Milton
Author: David Masson
Publisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 664
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 664
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Milton, Authorship, and the Book Trade
Author: Stephen B. Dobranski
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521641920
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
An original study of Milton's authorship and the material production of his texts in relation to the booktrade.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521641920
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
An original study of Milton's authorship and the material production of his texts in relation to the booktrade.
Milton's Contemporary Reputation
Author: William Riley Parker
Publisher: Ardent Media
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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Publisher: Ardent Media
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Languages : en
Pages : 304
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Milton's Leveller God
Author: David Williams
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773550356
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 513
Book Description
Three and a half centuries after Paradise Lost and Paradise Regain’d were written, do Milton’s epic poems still resonate with contemporary concerns? In Milton’s Leveller God, David Williams advances a progressive and democratic interpretation of Milton’s epics to show they are more relevant than ever. Exploring two blind spots in the critical tradition – the failure to read Milton’s poetry as drama and to recognize his depictions of heaven’s political and social evolution – Williams reads Milton’s “great argument” as a rejection of social hierarchy and of patriarchal government that is more attuned to the radical political thought developed by the Levellers during the English Revolution. He traces echoes between Milton’s texts and thousands of pages of Leveller writings that advocated for popular rule, extended suffrage, and religious tolerance, arguing that Milton’s God is still the unacknowledged ground of popular sovereignty. Williams demonstrates that Milton’s Leveller sympathies, expressed in his early prose, conflicted with his official duties for Oliver Cromwell’s government in the 1650s, but his association with the journalist Marchamont Nedham later freed him to imagine an egalitarian republic. In a work that connects the great epic poet in new ways to the politics of his time and our own, Milton’s Leveller God shows how the political landscape of Milton’s work fundamentally unsettles ancient hierarchies of soul and body, man and woman, reason and will, and ruler and ruled.
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773550356
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 513
Book Description
Three and a half centuries after Paradise Lost and Paradise Regain’d were written, do Milton’s epic poems still resonate with contemporary concerns? In Milton’s Leveller God, David Williams advances a progressive and democratic interpretation of Milton’s epics to show they are more relevant than ever. Exploring two blind spots in the critical tradition – the failure to read Milton’s poetry as drama and to recognize his depictions of heaven’s political and social evolution – Williams reads Milton’s “great argument” as a rejection of social hierarchy and of patriarchal government that is more attuned to the radical political thought developed by the Levellers during the English Revolution. He traces echoes between Milton’s texts and thousands of pages of Leveller writings that advocated for popular rule, extended suffrage, and religious tolerance, arguing that Milton’s God is still the unacknowledged ground of popular sovereignty. Williams demonstrates that Milton’s Leveller sympathies, expressed in his early prose, conflicted with his official duties for Oliver Cromwell’s government in the 1650s, but his association with the journalist Marchamont Nedham later freed him to imagine an egalitarian republic. In a work that connects the great epic poet in new ways to the politics of his time and our own, Milton’s Leveller God shows how the political landscape of Milton’s work fundamentally unsettles ancient hierarchies of soul and body, man and woman, reason and will, and ruler and ruled.
Re-membering Milton
Author: Mary Nyquist
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429639244
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
First published in 1987. Passionately praised and equally passionately criticised by contemporary and later writers, the figure of Milton inherited by the twentieth century is by no means unified, despite the appearance of monumental unity his work sometimes acquires in the classroom and in academic criticism. This collection of essays gathers together disparate and often conflicting representations of Milton as author and cultural figure. Critics familiar with the traditions of Milton scholarship and with debates in literary theory reconstruct Milton from evidence provided by his own prose and poetry, by his contemporaries (including some little-known women writers), by Romantics such as Blake and Wordsworth, and, finally, by a tradition of Afro-American writing that reflects Milton's influence in ways previously unexamined by critics. The process of reconstruction can also be seen as a process of "re-membering." The volume draws inspiration from, but also interrogates, the figure used in Areopagita to describe the quest for truth. Likening Truth to the dismembered body of Osiris, Milton urges Truth's friends to seek up and down, gathering "limb by limb" the body scattered through time and space. Re-membering Milton includes work by established critics from both sides of the Atlantic. Together these contributors place Milton and different Milton traditions firmly within the arenas of modem critical debate. As a result, the collection will be of interest to a wide range of readers: scholars concerned with Milton and Renaissance literature and history; advanced undergraduates and graduate students; researchers in women’s studies; and all readers generally concerned with trends in literary and cultural theory.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429639244
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
First published in 1987. Passionately praised and equally passionately criticised by contemporary and later writers, the figure of Milton inherited by the twentieth century is by no means unified, despite the appearance of monumental unity his work sometimes acquires in the classroom and in academic criticism. This collection of essays gathers together disparate and often conflicting representations of Milton as author and cultural figure. Critics familiar with the traditions of Milton scholarship and with debates in literary theory reconstruct Milton from evidence provided by his own prose and poetry, by his contemporaries (including some little-known women writers), by Romantics such as Blake and Wordsworth, and, finally, by a tradition of Afro-American writing that reflects Milton's influence in ways previously unexamined by critics. The process of reconstruction can also be seen as a process of "re-membering." The volume draws inspiration from, but also interrogates, the figure used in Areopagita to describe the quest for truth. Likening Truth to the dismembered body of Osiris, Milton urges Truth's friends to seek up and down, gathering "limb by limb" the body scattered through time and space. Re-membering Milton includes work by established critics from both sides of the Atlantic. Together these contributors place Milton and different Milton traditions firmly within the arenas of modem critical debate. As a result, the collection will be of interest to a wide range of readers: scholars concerned with Milton and Renaissance literature and history; advanced undergraduates and graduate students; researchers in women’s studies; and all readers generally concerned with trends in literary and cultural theory.
The Life of John Milton: 1660-2674
Author: David Masson
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 882
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Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 882
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A Milton Encyclopedia
Author: William Bridges Hunter
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 9780838718384
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
This nine volume set presents in easily accessible format the extensive information now available about John Milton. It has grown to be a study of English civilization of Milton's time and a history of literary and political matters since then.
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 9780838718384
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
This nine volume set presents in easily accessible format the extensive information now available about John Milton. It has grown to be a study of English civilization of Milton's time and a history of literary and political matters since then.
Milton and the Puritan Dilemma, 1641-1660
Author: Arthur E. Barker
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442633271
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 668
Book Description
This analysis of the progressive definition of John Milton’s social, political, and religious opinions during the fertile years of the Puritan Revolution has become a classic work of scholarship in the thirty-five years since it was first published. Professor Barker interprets Milton’s development in the light of his personal problems and of the changing climate of opinion among his revolutionary associates.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442633271
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 668
Book Description
This analysis of the progressive definition of John Milton’s social, political, and religious opinions during the fertile years of the Puritan Revolution has become a classic work of scholarship in the thirty-five years since it was first published. Professor Barker interprets Milton’s development in the light of his personal problems and of the changing climate of opinion among his revolutionary associates.
Republicanism, Liberty, and Commercial Society, 1649-1776
Author: David Wootton
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804723565
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
This examination of republicanism in an Anglo-American and European context gives weight not only to the thought of the theorists of republicanism but also to the practical experience of republican governments in England, Geneva, the Netherlands, and Venice.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804723565
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
This examination of republicanism in an Anglo-American and European context gives weight not only to the thought of the theorists of republicanism but also to the practical experience of republican governments in England, Geneva, the Netherlands, and Venice.