| Description |
ix, 262 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
The idea of Milton and the idea of woman / Julia M. Walker -- How free are Milton's women? / Susanne Woods -- "Myself/before me": gender and prohibition in Milton;s Italian sonnets / Lynn E. Enterline -- A mask presented a Ludlow castle: the armor of logos / Kathleen Wall -- Justice for Margery Evans: a "local" reading of Comus / Leah S. Marcus -- Courting Urania: the narrator of paradise lost invokes his muse / Noam Flinker -- Eve and the arts of Eden / Diane McColley -- In white ink: Paradise lost and Milton's ideas of women / Richard Corum -- Servile/sterile/style: Milton and the question of woman / Marshall Grossman -- Milton's portrait of Mary as a bearer of the word / Dayton Haskin -- "Incident to all our sex": the tragedy of Dalila / John C. Ulreich, Jr. -- Intestine thorn: Samson's struggle with the woman within / Jackie DiSalvo -- Female autonomy in Milton's sexual poetics / Janet E. Halley |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies and index |
| Subject |
Milton, John, 1608-1674 -- Characters -- Women.
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Milton, John, 1608-1674 -- Political and social views.
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Milton, John, 1608-1674.
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Literature and society -- England -- History -- 17th century.
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Poetry -- English -- 17th century
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Sex role in literature.
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Sex role.
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Women in literature.
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| Author |
Walker, Julia M., 1951-
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| LC no. |
87019075 |
| ISBN |
0252014863 (alk. paper) |
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