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Title Milton and gender / edited by Catherine Gimelli Martin
Published Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004
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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
Gender
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Milton, John, 1608-1674 -- Political and social views
Milton, John, 1608-1674 -- Relations with women
Milton, John, 1608-1674 -- Characters -- Women
SUBJECT Milton, John, 1608-1674 fast
Milton, John. swd
Subject Feminism and literature -- England -- History -- 17th century
Women and literature -- England -- History -- 17th century
Sex role in literature.
Women in literature.
POETRY -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Feminism and literature
Political and social views
Relations with women
Sex role in literature
Women and literature
Women in literature
Geschlechterrolle
Sexualität
Seksualiteit.
Vrouwen.
England
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Martin, Catherine Gimelli
LC no. 2004051860
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