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Author Greteman, Blaine.

Title The poetics and politics of youth in Milton's England / Blaine Greteman, University of Iowa
Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013

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Contents Introduction: Childish things -- Coming of age on stage: Jonson's epicoene and the politics of childhood in early Stuart England -- Children, literature, and the problem of consent -- Contract's children: Thomas Hobbes and the culture of subjection -- 'Perplex't paths': youth and authority in Milton's early work -- 'Children of reviving libertie': the radical politics of Milton's pedagogy -- 'Youthful beauty': infancy and adulthood among the angels of Paradise Lost -- Children of paradise -- Epilogue: 'Children gathering pebbles on the shore'
Summary As the notion of government by consent took hold in early modern England, many authors used childhood and maturity to address contentious questions of political representation - about who has a voice and who can speak on his or her own behalf. For John Milton, Ben Jonson, William Prynne, Thomas Hobbes and others, the period between infancy and adulthood became a site of intense scrutiny, especially as they examined the role of a literary education in turning children into political actors. Drawing on new archival evidence, Blaine Greteman argues that coming of age in the seventeenth century was a uniquely political act. His study makes a compelling case for understanding childhood as a decisive factor in debates over consent, autonomy and political voice, and will offer graduate students and scholars a new perspective on the emergence of apolitical children's literature in the eighteenth century
Notes Includes index
English
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Subject English literature -- 17th century -- History and criticism
Children in literature.
Youth in literature.
Children and politics -- History -- 17th century
Literature and society -- England -- History -- 17th century
English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Children and politics
Children in literature
English literature
Literature and society
Youth in literature
England
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2013008594
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