A new companion to Milton / edited by Thomas Corns.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Corns, Thomas, editor.

Series:

Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture.

THEi Wiley ebooks.

Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture

THEi Wiley ebooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Milton, John, 1608-1674--Criticism and interpretation.

Milton, John.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (702 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

West Sussex, England : Wiley Blackwell, 2016.

Language Note:

English

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Summary:

A New Companion to Milton builds on the critically-acclaimed original, bringing alive the diverse and controversial world of contemporary Milton studies while reflecting the very latest advances in research in the field. * Comprises 36 powerful readings of Milton's texts and the contexts in which they were created, each written by a leading scholar * Retains 28 of the award-winning essays from the first edition, revised and updated to reflect the most recent research * Contains a new section exploring Milton's global impact, in China, India, Japan, Korea, in Spanish speaking American and the Arab-speaking world * Includes eight completely new full-length essays, each of which engages closely with Milton's poetic oeuvre, and a new chronology which sets Milton's life and work in the context of his age * Explores literary production and cultural ideologies, issues of politics, gender and religion, individual Milton texts, and responses to Milton over time

Contents:

Title Page; Table of Contents; Notes on Contributors; Preface; Note on Editions Used; List of Abbreviations; Part I: The Cultural Context; 1 Genre; Bibliography; 2 The Classical Literary Tradition; The Opening Sentence of Paradise Lost; The Dialectic, as Seen in Further Allusions; The Variety of the Debts, and their Treatment Here; Further Examples from Paradise Lost, Book I; Development and Range; Classical Tradition in the Fall of Eve and Adam; Conclusion; Bibliography; 3 Milton on the Bible; Bibliography; 4 Literary Baroque and Literary Neoclassicism; Bibliography

5 Milton and English PoetryThe Moral Function of Poetry; Comus, Spenser, and Cavalier Poetry; Paradise Lost: Reforming Love; Samson Agonistes: Renouncing Love; Milton and the Restoration; Bibliography; 6 Milton's English; Bibliography; Part II: Politics and Religion; 7 The Legacy of the Late Jacobean Period; Watching Bishops and Kings; The University of Cambridge during Milton's Stay; Bibliography; 8 Milton and Puritanism; The 'ambiguous ill-made word'; Milton and Puritan Ecclesiology; Milton and Restoration Nonconformity; Milton and Puritan Politics; Milton and Puritan Doctrine

Milton and the Temper of PuritanismBibliography; 9 Radical Heterodoxy and Heresy; Bibliography; 10 Milton and Ecology; Milton's Ark of Language; Milton's Theology of Nature; Ecological Justice in A Masque: Earth's Womb and King Solomon's Mines; The Ecological Epic; Politics of Nature in Paradise Regained; Bibliography; 11 The English and Other Peoples; Colonies and Ethnic Theology; 'In Quintum Novembris'; The History of Britain; Observations on the Articles of the Peace; Bibliography; 12 The Literature of Controversy; Fresh Woods and Pastures New; Dangerous and Suspicious Fruit

Sclanderous libels, bitter Pasquines, railing PamphletsThis is True Liberty; Disputing, Reasoning, Reading; More Publick then Preaching?; Bibliography; Part III: Texts; 13 'On the Morning of Christ's Nativity,' 'Upon the Circumcision,' and 'The Passion'; Poetry and the Liturgical Calendar; Passion Poetry; The Feast of the Circumcision; Nativity Poetry; The Achievement of 'On the Morning of Christ's Nativity'; Bibliography; 14 The Poetic Promise of 'On the Morning of Christ's Nativity'; Allusive Devotion; From Pastoral Infancy to Apocalyptic Maturity; Rewriting the Poetic Past; Bibliography

15 John Milton's ComusBibliography; 16 'Lycidas'; Bibliography; 17 Milton's Sonnets; Considering; Political Learning; Using; Learning Early; Bibliography; 18 Exact Latinity and Excellent English: Milton's Early Poetry; Tot linguae ('so many languages'): Milton's Multilingualism; 'Indefatigable industry': Milton at St Paul's; 'Diligent study' and 'high esteem': Milton at Cambridge; Bibliography; 19 Early Political Prose; The Antiprelatical Tracts; Areopagitica: November 1644; Bibliography; 20 Milton, Marriage, and Divorce; Bibliography; 21 Republicanism; Republicans and Regicides

Milton and Republicanism

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781118827833

111882783X

9781118827888

1118827880

9781118827840

1118827848

9781118827871

1118827872

OCLC:

926105966