Title Milton and Toleration

Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (320 pages) Contents Revising Whig accounts -- Milton and the European contexts of toleration/ Nigel Smith -- Toleration and the specter of heresy in Milton's England / David Loewenstein -- John Milton, Roger Williams, and the limits of toleration / Thomas N. Corns -- Milton, Marvell and toleration / Nicholas von Maltzahn -- Philosophical and religious engagements -- Libertinism and toleration: Milton, Bruno and Aretino / James Grantham Turner -- Milton, natural law, and toleration / Jason P. Rosenblatt -- 'A taken scandal not a given': Milton's equitable grounds of toleration / Victoria Silver -- Milton and antitrinitarianism/ Martin Dzelzainis -- Milton and Catholicism / Andrew Hadfield -- Poetry and rhetoric -- Toleration and nationhood in the 1650s: sonnet XV and the case of Ireland / Elizabeth Sauer -- Toleration in Milton's epics: a chimera? / Sharon Achinstein -- Intolerance and the virtues of sacred vehemence / Paul Stevens -- Secularizing conscience in Milton's republican community / Lana Cable -- Milton, Islam and the Ottomans / Gerald Maclean Summary 15 leading scholars examine the idea of toleration in Milton's poetry & prose. Looking at how Milton himself imagined tolerance & locating his works in their literary, historical, & philosophical context, the essays address central issues including violence, heresy, church polity, liberalism, natural law & more Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Milton, John, 1608-1674 -- Criticism and interpretation SUBJECT Milton, John, 1608-1674 fast Subject Toleration in literature. Religion and literature -- England -- History -- 17th century Religious tolerance in literature. Intellectual life Religion and literature Religious tolerance in literature Toleration in literature SUBJECT England -- Intellectual life -- 17th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043302 Subject England Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book Author Sauer, Elizabeth, 1964- Oxford University Press

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