Milton's modernities : poetry, philosophy, and history from the seventeenth century to the present / edited by Feisal G. Mohamed and Patrick Fadely.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mohamed, Feisal G. (Feisal Gharib), 1974- editor.

Fadely, Patrick, editor.

Project Muse.

Series:

Rethinking the Early Modern

Rethinking the early modern

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Milton, John.

Milton, John, 1608-1674.

English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.

English literature.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 364 pages.)

Place of Publication:

Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2017.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

The phrase "early modern" challenges readers and scholars to explore ways in which that period expands and refines contemporary views of the modern. The original essays in Milton's Modernities undertake such exploration in the context of the work of John Milton, a poet whose prodigious energies simultaneously point to the past and future. Bristling with insights on Milton's major works, Milton's Modernities offers fresh perspectives on the thinkers central to our theorizations of modernity: from Lucretius and Spinoza, Hegel and Kant, to Benjamin and Deleuze. At the volume's core is an embrace of the possibilities unleashed by current trends in philosophy, variously styled as the return to ethics, or metaphysics, or religion. These make all the more visible Milton's dialogues with later modernity, dialogues that promise to generate much critical discussion in early modern studies and beyond. Such approaches necessarily challenge many prevailing assumptions that have guided recent Milton criticism--assumptions about context and periodization, for instance. In this way, Milton's Modernities powerfully broadens the historical archive beyond the materiality of events and things, incorporating as well intellectual currents, hybrids, and insights.

Contents:

Introduction: Satan or Samson? The question of Milton and modernity / Patrick Fadely and Feisal G. Mohamed

Periodizing Milton : in Two Sallies / James Nohrnberg

"The mind is its own place" : Lucretian moral philosophy in Paradise lost / Jessie Hock

Learning from history : empiricism, likeness, and liberty in Paradise lost, Books 11-12 / Ryan Netzley

Divine violence and the messianic possibilities of Samson Agonistes / Jennifer Tole

Constituent providence and antinomian obedience : monistic stories in Spinoza's Ethics and Milton's Paradise lost / Christopher Kendrick

Miltonic mind / Sanford Budick

Milton's sublime Judaism and Hegel's Religion der Erhabenheit : the ends of typology and the impossibility of Christianity / Russ Leo

Milton's tacitist sovereignty / Feisal G. Mohamed

"A secular bird ages" : Samson Agonistes as a tragic reaction against modernity / Lee Morrissey

Insideoutput : Milton's inspiration / Gordon Teskey

Tablet for the God of Israel : Robert Medley's 1979 Samson Agonistes / Wendy Furman-Adams

Afterword: Suddenly emergent Milton / Sharon Achinstein.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Baltimore, MD Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780810135352

0810135353

Publisher Number:

40027414036

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Restricted for use by site license.