The new Milton criticism / edited by Peter C. Herman and Elizabeth Sauer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Herman, Peter C., 1958- editor.

Sauer, Elizabeth, 1964- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Milton, John.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 253 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The New Milton Criticism seeks to emphasize ambivalence and discontinuity in Milton's work and interrogate the assumptions and certainties in previous Milton scholarship. Contributors to the volume move Milton's open-ended poetics to the centre of Milton studies by showing how analysing irresolvable questions - religious, philosophical and literary critical - transforms interpretation and enriches appreciation of his work. The New Milton Criticism encourages scholars to embrace uncertainties in his writings rather than attempt to explain them away. Twelve critics from a range of countries, approaches and methodologies explore these questions in these new readings of Paradise Lost and other works. Sure to become a focus of debate and controversy in the field, this volume is a truly original contribution to early modern studies.

Contents:

Introduction: paradigms lost, paradigms found: the new Milton criticism / Peter C. Herman and Elizabeth Sauer

Part I. Theodicies: 1. Milton's fetters, or, why Eden is better than heaven / Richard Strier; 2. 'Whose fault, whose but his own?': Paradise Lost, contributory negligence, and the problem of cause / Peter C. Herman; 3. The political theology of Milton's heaven / John Rogers; 4. Meanwhile: (un)making time in Paradise Lost / Judith Scherer Herz; 5. The gnostic Milton: salvation and divine similitude in Paradise Regained / Michael Bryson; 6. Discontents with the drama of regeneration / Elizabeth Sauer

Part II. Critical Receptions: 7. Against fescues and ferulas: personal affront and the path to individual liberty in Milton's early prose / Christopher D'Addario; 8. Disruptive partners: Milton and seventeenth-century women writers / Shannon Miller; 9. Eve and the ironic theodicy of the new Milton criticism / Thomas Festa; 10. Man and thinker: Denis Saurat, and the old new Milton criticism / Jeffrey Shoulson; 11. The poverty of context: Cambridge School history and the new Milton criticism / William Kolbrener; 12. Afterword / Joseph A. Wittreich.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

ISBN:

1-139-36627-0

1-107-23107-8

1-280-66414-2

9786613641076

1-139-37885-6

1-139-09423-8

1-139-37599-7

1-139-37742-6

1-139-37200-9

1-139-38028-1

OCLC:

794327757