Milton and the Jews / edited by Douglas A. Brooks.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brooks, Douglas A.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Milton, John, 1608-1674.

Milton, John.

Judaism--Great Britain--History--17th century.

Judaism.

Jews--Great Britain--History--17th century.

Jews.

Christianity and other religions--Judaism--History--17th century.

Christianity and other religions.

History.

Judaism--Relations--Christianity--History--17th century.

Relations.

Christianity.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

xii, 226 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.

Contents:

Milton and the Jews: "a project never so seasonable, and necessary, as now!" / Douglas A. Brooks

England, Israel, and the Jews in Milton's prose, 1649-1660 / Achsah Guibbory

Milton's peculiar nation / Elizabeth Sauer

Making use of the Jews: Milton and philosemitism / Nicholas von Maltzahn

Milton and Solomonic education / Douglas Trevor

"He is imitating nobody, and he is inimitable": T.S. Eliot and the anti-Semitic aesthetics of the Milton controversy / Matthew Biberman

A metaphorical Jew: the carnal, the literal, and the Miltonic / Linda Tredennick

"The people of Asia and with them the Jews": Israel, Asia, and England in Milton's writings / Rachel Trubowitz

Returning to Egypt: "the Jew," "the Turk," and the English republic / Benedict Robinson.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-216) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9780521888837

0521888832

OCLC:

173218608

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