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Milton's modernities : poetry, philosophy, and history from the seventeenth century to the present / edited by Feisal G. Mohamed and Patrick Fadely.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Rethinking the Early Modern.
- Rethinking the early modern
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Milton, John, 1608-1674--Criticism and interpretation.
- Milton, John.
- English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 364 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2017.
- Summary:
- The phrase “early modern” challenges readers and scholars to explore ways in which that period expands and refines contemporary views of the modern. Milton’s Modernities is a collection of eleven original essays undertaking such exploration with a focus on 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 core of this volume 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.
- 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 index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-8101-3535-3
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