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Why Milton Matters: A New Preface to His Writings / by J. Wittreich.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wittreich, Joseph Anthony.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Poetry.
- European literature--Renaissance, 1450-1600.
- European literature.
- Literature--History and criticism.
- Literature.
- Poetry and Poetics.
- Early Modern and Renaissance Literature.
- Literary History.
- European Literature.
- Local Subjects:
- Poetry and Poetics.
- Early Modern and Renaissance Literature.
- Literary History.
- European Literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (280 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2006.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Wittreich demonstrates why Milton may prove to be the poet for the new millennium, in a book of interest to scholars and general readers. It engages the canonical Milton, as well as the Milton of popular culture, and uses the tools of theory- especially affective stylistics and reception history, to read Milton in his historical moment and our own.
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Citations; Illustrations; Preface; 1 ""Reading"" Milton: The Death (and Survival) of the Author; 2 Horizons of Expectations: Repressions, Receptions, and the Politics of Milton's Last Poems; 3 Questioning and Critique: The Formation of a New Milton Criticism; Notes; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786611361013
- 9781281361011
- 1281361011
- 9780230601420
- 0230601421
- OCLC:
- 314888859
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