A New Companion to Milton E-Book

• Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Serie: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 1586

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2015

Beschreibung

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

Leseprobe

Table of Contents

Cover

Title Page

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 Poetry

The 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 Puritanism

Bibliography

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 Pamphlets

This 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

Comus

Bibliography

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

Milton and the Neo-Roman Theory of Liberty

Milton in 1649

Bibliography

22 Late Political Prose

Scholarly Issues

Earlier Writings and Political Context for

The Readie and Easie Way

The First Edition of

The Readie and Easie Way

Milton and General Monck

The Second Edition of

The Readie and Easie Way

Milton’s Last-ditch Appeal

Bibliography

23 Milton in Intellectual History

Theology and Freedom

Natural Philosophy and Freedom

Politics and Freedom

Bibliography

24 The Radical Religious Politics of

Paradise Lost

Politics in Milton’s Hell

Politics and Faith in Milton’s Heaven

Politics and Faith in Postlapsarian History

Bibliography

25 Obedience and Autonomy in

Paradise Lost

Bibliography

26

Paradise Lost

and the Multiplicity of Time

The Temptation of Sequence

Delay and Desire

Time and the Fall

Time and Grace

Bibliography

27 Self-Contradicting Puns in

Paradise Lost

Bibliography

28 A Paradise for Poets

Bibliography

29 Milton and his Epic Precursors

‘The skill of artifice or office mean’

Bibliography

30 ‘Nor vacuous the space’: Milton’s Chaos and the Vacuist–Plenist Controversy

Vacuism versus Plenism and the Lucretian Subtext of

Paradise Lost

Milton, Boyle, and the Politics of Air Pressure and Vacuums

Bibliography

31

Samson Agonistes

Champion of Tragedy

Champion of Israel

Champion of Christian Violence?

Champion of Masculinity?

Milton’s Champion

Bibliography

32 Memorial, Performance, and Tragic Action in

Samson Agonistes

Tragedy and Revolution Revisited

BIBLIOGRAPHY

33

Paradise Regained

Bibliography

34 Satan, the Son of God, and the Brief Epic

Bibliography

Part IV: Influences and Impact

35 Reading Milton, 1674–1800

Bibliography

36 Milton

Milton as Patriot and Republican Hero

Natural Supernaturalism

Romantic and Miltonic Satanism

Milton and Women Romantic Writers

Bibliography

37 Milton’s Global Impact

The Arabic-Speaking World

Bibliography

China

Bibliography

India

Bibliography

Japan

Bibliography

Writings

Korea

Spanish-Speaking America

Bibliography

Part V: Chronology

38 The Life and Times of John Milton

Bibliography

Consolidated Bibliography

Index

End User License Agreement

List of Illustrations

Chapter 06

Figure 1

Paradise Lost

IV. 935–45

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Notes on Contributors

Sharon Achinstein is Sir William Osler Professor of Renaissance Literature at Johns Hopkins University. In recent years her work on Milton has concentrated on issues concerning marriage, divorce, gender, and the family. She is editor of Milton's Divorce Tracts for The Complete Works of Milton and has authored Milton and the Revolutionary Reader (1994), an award-winning study of the pamphlet culture and political communication of the English Revolution, and Literature and Dissent in Milton's England (2003). With Elizabeth Sauer, she co-edited Milton and Toleration (2007), which won the Irene Samuel Award from the Milton Society of America.

Amy Boesky is Professor of English at Boston College, where she directs the minor in Medical Humanities, Health, and Culture. She is author of Founding Fictions: Utopias in Early Modern England (1996) and various articles on Milton in journals, including Milton Studies, SEL, and Modern Philology. Her recent work has focussed on representations of illness in literature; she has published a memoir, What We Have (2010) and edited a collection of personal essays, The Story Within: Personal Essays on Genetics and Identity (2013).

Cedric C. Brown is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Reading and founder editor, now co-editor, of the long-running book series Early Modern Literature in History. Most of his work of the past few years has led to a forthcoming book on The Discourses of Friendship in the Seventeenth Century. Recent publications also include studies of recusant manuscripts, letters, and gift-texts, and of Milton's friendship with Charles Diodati.