A Companion to Milton

Portada
Thomas N. Corns
John Wiley & Sons, 2003 M09 11 - 544 páginas

The diverse and controversial world of contemporary Milton studies is brought alive in this stimulating Companion.

  • Winner of the Milton Society of America's Irene Samuels Book Award in 2002.
  • Invites readers to explore and enjoy Milton's rich and fascinating work.
  • Comprises 29 fresh and powerful readings of Milton's texts and the contexts in which they were created, each written by a leading scholar.
  • Looks at literary production and cultural ideologies, issues of politics, gender and religion, individual Milton texts, other relevant contemporary texts and responses to Milton over time.
  • Devotes a whole chapter to each major poem, and four to Paradise Lost.
  • Conveys the excitement of recent developments in the field.
 

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Contenido

The Classical Literary Tradition
22
Milton on the Bible
37
Literary Baroque and Literary Neoclassicism
55
Milton and English Poetry
72
Miltons English
90
The Legacy of the Late Jacobean Period
109
Milton and Puritanism
124
Radical Heterodoxy and Heresy
141
Republicanism
294
Late Political Prose
309
Paradise Lost in Intellectual History
329
The Radical Religious Politics of Paradise Lost
348
Obedience and Autonomy in Paradise Lost
363
Paradise Lost and the Multiplicity of Time
380
SelfContradicting Puns in Paradise Lost
393
Samson Agonistes
411

Milton and Ecology
157
The English and Other Peoples
174
The Literature of Controversy
191
On the Morning of Christs Nativity Upon
215
John Miltons Comus
232
Lycidas
246
Early Political Prose
263
Milton Marriage and Divorce
279
Paradise Regained
429
Reading Milton 16741800
447
The Romantics and After
463
The Life Records
483
Consolidated Bibliography
499
General Index
521
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Acerca del autor (2003)

Thomas N. Corns is a Professor of English at the University of Wales, Bangor. His many publications include Milton's Language (Blackwell, 1990), Uncloistered Virtue: English Political Literature, 1640-1660 (1992), and Regaining Paradise Lost (1994). He is also the editor of The Royal Image: Representations of Charles I (1999).

Información bibliográfica

TítuloA Companion to Milton
Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
EditorThomas N. Corns
Ediciónilustrada, reimpresa
EditorJohn Wiley & Sons, 2003
ISBN1405113707, 9781405113700
Largo544 páginas
  
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