Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 277 pages) : illustrations |
Contents |
Introduction: Milton's gendered subjects / Catherine Gimelli Martin -- PART I. MASCULINITY, DIVORCE, AND MISOGYNY IN MILTON'S PROSE -- The gender of civic virtue / Gina Hausknecht -- The aesthetics of divorce: "masculinism," idolatry, and poetic authority in Tetrachordon and Paradise Lost / James Grantham Turner -- Dalila, misogyny, and Milton's Christian liberty of divorce / Catherine Gimelli Martin -- PART II. THE GENDERED SUBJECTS OF MILTON'S MAJOR POEMS -- The profession of virginity in A maske presented at Ludlow Castle / William Shullenberger -- The genders of God and the redemption of the flesh in Paradise lost / Marshall Grossman -- Transported touch: the fruit of marriage in Paradise lost / John Rogers -- The experience of defeat: Milton and some female contemporaries / Elizabeth M. Sauer -- Samson and surrogacy / Amy Boesky -- "I was his nursling once": nation, lactation, and the Hebraic in Samson Agonistes / Rachel Trubowitz -- "The Jewish Question" and "The woman question" in Samson Agonistes: gender, religion, and nation / Achsah Guibbory -- PART III. GENDERED SUBJECTIVITY IN MILTON'S LITERARY HISTORY -- George Elliot as a "Miltonist": marriage and Milton in Middlemarch / Dayton Haskin -- Saying it with flowers: Jane Giraud's ecofeminist Paradise Lost (1846) / Wendy Furman-Adams, Virginia James Tufte -- Woolf's allusion to Comus in The voyage out / Lisa Low |
Summary |
Milton's contempt for women has been accepted as fact by many critics. This book re-evaluates this claim by analysing his major poems, his four divorce tracts, and the responses of female readers. Together, these essays provide a fresh perspective on all aspects of gender in Milton's work |
Analysis |
Milton |
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Gender |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
Subject |
Milton, John, 1608-1674 -- Political and social views
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Milton, John, 1608-1674 -- Relations with women
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Milton, John, 1608-1674 -- Characters -- Women
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SUBJECT |
Milton, John, 1608-1674 fast |
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Milton, John. swd |
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Feminism and literature -- England -- History -- 17th century
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Women and literature -- England -- History -- 17th century
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Sex role in literature.
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Women in literature.
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POETRY -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Feminism and literature
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Political and social views
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Relations with women
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Sex role in literature
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Women and literature
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Women in literature
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Geschlechterrolle
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Sexualität
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Seksualiteit.
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Vrouwen.
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England
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Martin, Catherine Gimelli
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LC no. |
2004051860 |
ISBN |
0511080840 |
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9780511080845 |
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0511121830 |
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9780511121838 |
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0511080085 |
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9780511080081 |
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9780511483752 |
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0511483759 |
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9786610162673 |
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6610162670 |
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1107140226 |
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9781107140226 |
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1280162678 |
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9781280162671 |
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0511196423 |
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9780511196423 |
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0511298021 |
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9780511298028 |
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