| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 253 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction: paradigms lost, paradigms found: the new Milton criticism / Peter C. Herman and Elizabeth Sauer -- Part I. Theodicies: 1. Milton's fetters, or, why Eden is better than heaven / Richard Strier; 2. 'Whose fault, whose but his own?': Paradise Lost, contributory negligence, and the problem of cause / Peter C. Herman; 3. The political theology of Milton's heaven / John Rogers; 4. Meanwhile: (un)making time in Paradise Lost / Judith Scherer Herz; 5. The gnostic Milton: salvation and divine similitude in Paradise Regained / Michael Bryson; 6. Discontents with the drama of regeneration / Elizabeth Sauer -- Part II. Critical Receptions: 7. Against fescues and ferulas: personal affront and individual liberty in Milton's early prose / Christopher D'Addario; 8. Disruptive partners: Milton and seventeenth-century women writers / Shannon Miller; 9. Eve and the ironic theodicy of the new Milton criticism / Thomas Festa; 10. Man and thinker: Denis Saurat, and the old new Milton criticism / Jeffrey Shoulson; 11. The poverty of context: Cambridge School history and the new Milton criticism / William Kolbrener; 12. Afterword / Joseph Wittreich |
| Summary |
"The New Milton Criticism seeks to emphasize ambivalence and discontinuity in Milton's work and interrogate the assumptions and certainties in previous Milton scholarship. Contributors to the volume move Milton's open-ended poetics to the centre of Milton studies by showing how analysing irresolvable questions - religious, philosophical and literary critical - transforms interpretation and enriches appreciation of his work. The New Milton Criticism encourages scholars to embrace uncertainties in his writings rather than attempt to explain them away. Twelve critics from a range of countries, approaches and methodologies explore these questions in these new readings of Paradise Lost and other works. Sure to become a focus of debate and controversy in the field, this volume is a truly original contribution to early modern studies"-- Provided by publisher |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Milton, John, 1608-1674 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Milton, John, 1608-1674 fast |
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Milton, John. idszbz |
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Milton, John, 1608-1674 -- Criticism and interpretation. idszbzes |
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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POETRY -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Werk.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Herman, Peter C., 1958-
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Sauer, Elizabeth, 1964-
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| ISBN |
9781139380287 |
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1280664142 |
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