Author: Elisabeth De WaalPublisher:
ISBN: 9781910263211
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Milton Place
Author: Elisabeth De WaalPublisher:
ISBN: 9781910263211
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Locating Milton
Author: Thomas FestaPublisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1949979733
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Locating Milton: Places and Perspectives collects nine previously unpublished essays that examine Milton’s works as the product of his unique intellectual experiences at home and abroad, while also tracing the ways in which those works themselves express the influence of his travel, his reading, and his political engagement. Following an interpretive introduction that seeks to locate Milton through his last surviving letter, the first group of essays examine how young Milton locates himself through his travels in Italy, how Milton’s early reading leads him to situate himself intellectually, and how the intellectual framework Milton generated remains pertinent to students and communities today. The second group calculates the impact of early modern mathematical and scientific models on Milton’s cosmology, demonstrating how Milton’s complex negotiations of such models give form and perspective to his greatest poetic works. The final group of essays locates Milton distinctly through his works’ global reception, ranging from the anonymous English poem Praeexistence, to Milton’s place in the “new world” and science fiction, to his presence as a figure inspiring political resistance in communist Hungary.
Milton's Places of Hope
Author: Mary C. FentonPublisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 9780754657682
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Drawing on an array of materials from the seventeenth century, including emblems, legal treatises, political pamphlets, and prayer manuals, Mary C. Fenton sheds light on Milton's ideas about personal and national identity, and where people should place th
The New England Milton
Author: K. P. Van AnglenPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271041862
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
The New England Milton concentrates on the poet's place in the writings of the Unitarians and the Transcendentalists, especially Emerson, Thoreau, William Ellery Channing, Jones Very, Margaret Fuller, and Theodore Parker, and demonstrates that his reception by both groups was a function of their response as members of the New England elite to older and broader sociopolitical tensions in Yankee culture as it underwent the process of modernization. For Milton and his writings (particularly Paradise Lost) were themselves early manifestations of the continuing crisis of authority that later afflicted the dominant class and professions in Boston; and so, the Unitarian Milton, like the Milton of Emerson's lectures or Thoreau's Walden, quite naturally became the vehicle for literary attempts by these authors to resolve the ideological contradictions they had inherited from the Puritan past.
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Author: Kent